About Web Development by Activo » httpd.conf http://www.activoinc.com/blog Web Development in a Web 2.0 World Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:16:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Performance Optimized httpd.conf for Magento eCommerce http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2009/08/31/performance-optimized-httpd-conf-for-magento-ecommerce/ http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2009/08/31/performance-optimized-httpd-conf-for-magento-ecommerce/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:00:46 +0000 Ron Peled http://www.activoinc.com/blog/?p=320 If you ever run Magento eCommerce on your servers you know that it requires some serious horse power. It is just the nature of the beast, with XML configuration, the usage of the Zend Framework, and MVC design – every page load is not trivial. I realize that there are many lighter and various other forms of web servers, however I always stick to the safest and most reliable which usually happens to be the most popular option out there: httpd. Here is an optimized httpd.conf targeting a dedicated server box for running only httpd (no mysql) and Magento:

A couple of assumptions first:

  • You are running CentOS (I did not test any other distros)
  • You have httpd installed
  • You have lots of RAM (this server has 16GB of RAM)
  • This is a dedicated box
  • You know what you are doing…

Download the file, copy over your httpd.conf, restart httpd:

wget http://www.activoinc.com/downloads/httpd.conf-magento
cp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf ./httpd.conf.old
cat httpd.conf-magento > /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Once done, you will also need to update the vhosts area of the file near the bottom of it. In case you wanted, here is a direct link to the file: http://www.activoinc.com/downloads/httpd.conf-magento

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