The LiteSpeed Crawler is a part of LiteSpeed’s WordPress cache plugin. Usually, a cache page is created once the first user visits an un-cached page, any other user that will visit the same page will see the cached page. Enabling
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Compiling PHP 5.2 on a CentOS 7 LiteSpeed Server
PHP 5.2 is deprecated a long time ago, but still, we had to fire up an old website on a CentOS 7 box using LiteSpeed. Although building PHP 5.2 from source should be supported, it doesn’t really work “out of
Post-processing of the image failed likely because the server is busy.
This was a hard nut! We got this error with a LiteSpeed server running a WordPress site. Trying to upload an image resulted in the error “wordpress image upload error: Post-processing of the image failed likely because the server is
LiteSpeed lsphp 7.4 zip Support
Here is a “Quick & Dirty” guide to adding support for lsphp 7.4 Zip extension without building from source the entire PHP core. This is relevant for CentOS / RedHat 7 distros. yum install lsphp74-pear yum install lsphp74-devel yum install
Dealing with aggressive bot scanners
Google is your friend, but sometimes their crawler can be a little bit aggressive consuming resources from your webservers (and sometimes even crashing it). With static sites or at least sites that are using a decent cache, this shouldn’t be
Litespeed Geo Location Redirect
Here we will use a geolocation DB combined with a Litespeed webserver to redirect visitors on our site to a different version or language of the site based on their location. In this example, we are using Centos 7 and