What is LiteSpeed Web Server ?

LiteSpeed Web Server is the leading high-performance, high-scalability web server. It is completely Apache interchangeable so LiteSpeed Web Server can quickly replace a major bottleneck in your existing web delivery platform. With its comprehensive range of features and easy-to-use web administration console, LiteSpeed Web Server can help you conquer the challenges of deploying an effective web serving architecture.

What is LiteSpeed Load Balancer

LiteSpeed Load Balancer (LSLB) is a high-performance, content-aware, session-aware HTTP application load balancer. It can forward requests based on request content as well as session stickiness preference. LiteSpeed Load Balancer can help scale your application beyond one server deployment, as well as improve the reliability of your service in case of hardware failures.

Example: we will build 1 load balancer with 2 webserver behind load balancer.

Securing PHP is a must nowadays. There are many cases about php exploiting.
And we need to take steps to make sure weak applications are not compromised on the server leading to bigger problems.
LiteSpeed web server is an Apache interchangeable, full-featured high performance,
secure HTTP server specifically engineered from the ground up with security and scalability in mind.
However, setting up Litespeed + PHP5 on FreeBSD has some troubles. This is caused by a bug with

Fresh server, without other web server installed
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Install LiteSpeed
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Go to this path :
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cd /usr/local/
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Download LiteSpeed :
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wget http://www.litespeedtech.com/packages/3.0/lsws-3.2.3-std-i386-linux.tar.gz
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Unpack the lsws-3.2.3-std-i386-linux source :
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tar -zxvf lsws-3.2.3-std-i386-linux.tar.gz
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Change directory to lsws-3.2.3/ :
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cd lsws-3.2.3/
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Install lsws :
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./install.sh
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