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 Nginx ?

Nginx is (pronounced "engine X") is a lightweight web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy, licensed under a BSD-like license.

In This tutorial we will try to install Nginx web server with PHP5, PHP5 Ext, MySQL5 and Pecl-Memcache PHP module in FreeBSD7 server.

I assume you already have freebsd server up and running.
We will using port to install all packages.

Installing MySQL5

In this tutorial we will upgrade apache from 1.x to apache 2.x and php 4.x to php 5.x with Suhosin security patch in Cpanel server.

First we need to login into Cpanel server with root access via putty.
[code]root@cpanel [~]#[/code]

We need to force Cpanel to update to the stable version
[code]root@cpanel [~]# /scripts/upcp --force[/code]

## We need to wait the process until finished without any error.

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/ :
[code]
cd lsws-3.2.3/
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Install lsws :
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./install.sh
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