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On my Gentoo virtual server, apache was taking up to 3 minutes to startup. The problem is caused by the system having too little entropy to generate random numbers needed for the PID. You can check the value on your machine using cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail A value below 20 is quite low. Emerging rng-tools can increase […]

Here is what we are going to do. emerge awstats Install awstats using webapp-config Edit the apache configuration file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf Edit the awstats config file Update Statistics Update Cron 1. emerge awstats Before emerging awstats, add “vhosts” to your use variables in your /etc/make.conf file. This will allow multiple copies of awstats to be installed, […]

The following steps need to be performed emerge WordPress Install WordPress using webapp-config Configure the MySql database Edit the wp-config.php file 1. emerge WordPress Before emerging WordPress, add “vhosts” to your use variables in your /etc/make.conf file. This will allow multiple copies of WordPress to be installed, updated and deleted using the webapp-config tool. emerge […]