Today we have different web servers available on the GNU/Linux platform.Here i am listing only the web servers that can be used for a mainstream web hosting environment
The web servers can be classified basically into 2
1. Process based webserver - In a process based web server each new connection is handled by a new web [...]

Recently i undertook a project to setup Instant Messenger alerts from nagios .
Nagios is highly configurable.Once we understand the elegant nature in which nagios works and get configured ,extending nagios to send IM alerts is quite childs play .Thanks to many user contributed scripts that allow you to connectto many Instant Messaging Gateways. I used [...]

The following configuration disables logging the http requests in nginx
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http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
#log_format main ‘$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] $request ‘
# [...]

To enable directory listing use the following configuration option:
autoindex on;

eg:
server { listen 80; server_name gnusys.net; autoindex on;…………}