Source: Nico’s Blog

MySQL Master-Slave replication is natively supported by MySQL. However its configuration is not so simple. For each slave added as a replica, a few configuration steps must be done on both the master and itself.

So if you want to install a master instance on a machine or VM, and then install 5 other instances as slaves on other hosts, you will be doing quite a lot of back-and-forth configuration. I couldn’t find any way of configuring the replication automatically on the web, so I decided to create my own bash script to do it.

MySQL Master-Slave Replication

What is it and why use it ?

This form of replication is pretty simple: only a single instance, known as the master, creates or updates data. Each additional instance, called slave, simply keeps a copy of the master’s data, by replicating it each time the master has new data. Lire la suite…

Source: ryadel.com

We already had the opportunity to talk about Replication between MySQL Database in a previous article, where we described it as a great way to increase the security and reliability of data storage without spending a fortune. In this article we will see what to do when the Replication stops working: how to notice, what can I do to restore it and, most importantly, how to ensure that the data is re-synchronized.

Identify causes

The first thing to do is make sure that the Replication is actually broken. Although in most cases we can clearly see it by just looking at the replicated data, we need to check it in an objective way. In order to do this go to the Slave, issue the command SHOW SLAVE STATUS – or SHOW SLAVE STATUS\G if you prefer to read the results in human-readable format – and go read the column contents: Slave_SQL_Running and Slave_IO_Running: if there’s at least a NO, that means that the Replication is actually broken, otherwise the problem is attributable to other causes. Lire la suite…

Source: Optimiser les performances de MySQL (Quentin Busuttil)

Les bases de données SQL et plus particulièrement MySQL restent une des pierres angulaires de l’immense majorité des sites internet. MySQL fonctionne très bien out of the box, cependant, dès que la base se trouve assez sollicitée, on s’aperçoit que les réglages par défaut méritent une petite optimisation. Jetons un œil à tout ça !

Récemment, un des serveurs de Peerus commençait à avoir de sacrés pics de load lors des heures de forte charge, avec MySQL pour principal responsable. Une grosse centaine de connexions simultanées et quelques dizaines de requêtes par seconde sur des bases de plusieurs dizaines de giga. C’est un peu plus que le WordPress moyen, mais rien d’ingérable pour un MySQL bien réglé.

Dès lors, avant d’imaginer prendre un serveur plus puissant, sharder les tables ou je ne sais quoi encore, il faut tirer le maximum de notre cher SGBDR. Lire la suite…

Le logiciel pure-ftpd est l’un des serveurs FTP les plus simple à installer et configurer c’est pourquoi si vous cherchez à installer un serveur FTP rapidement sur votre serveur Linux, je ne peux que vous le recommander.
Aujourd’hui, nous allons voir comment utiliser pure-ftpd et MySQL simultanément pour permettre la séparation des tâches avec l’enregistrement des comptes utilisateurs dans la base de données et le reste du fonctionnement gérer par pure-ftpd. Le but du tutoriel n’étant pas de vous apprendre à installer et manipuler MySQL, je pars du principe que ce dernier est installé sur la même machine (ou une machine distante) que votre serveur FTP et que vous avez soit MySQL Workbench sous la main ou le client MySQL en ligne de commande pour la partie traitant des manipulations sur la base de donnée.

Installation du serveur Pure-FTPd-mysql

Pour utiliser MySQL avec votre serveur de FTP, il faut que ce dernier ai été compilé avec la commande “–with-mysql“. Heureusement pour nous, plutôt que de ce compliquer la vie à compiler les sources du serveur, nous allons directement installer le paquet tout prêt à l’usage nommé : pure-ftpd-mysql.
Même si on vous conseil d’installer “pure-ftpd” ou même qu’on vous demande de le désinstaller si vous l’avez déjà installé, dite oui pour continuer l’installation.

sudo apt install pure-ftpd-mysql

Note : Si vous avez votre serveur FTP déjà en cours de production, l’installation de cette version ne perturbera en rien vos utilisateurs et vous pouvez continuer la suite de ce tutoriel puisque le redémarrage ne sera nécessaire qu’à la fin.

Création de la Base de données

A partir de votre interface PHPMyAdmin ou du client MySQL, vous allez créer un utilisateur ainsi qu’une base de données associés à ce compte.

Création d’un compte utilisateur en requête SQL.

CREATE USER 'pureftpd' identified by 'pwdftp';

Création de la base de donnée et une table qui servira à contenir les comptes utilisateurs.

CREATE DATABASE pureftpd;

Association du compte utilisateur “pureftpd” avec la table “users” en lui attribuant les droits de lecture, écriture, mise à jour et suppression.

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON '*.pureftpd' TO 'pureftpd';

Création de la table où les utilisateurs seront enregistrés.

CREATE TABLE users (
Id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY,
User varchar(32) NOT NULL default '' UNIQUE KEY,
Password varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
Uid int(3) NOT NULL default 33,
Gid int(3) NOT NULL default 33,
Dir varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
QuotaSize int(4) NOT NULL default 250,
ULBandwidth int(2) NOT NULL default 10,
DLBandwidth int(2) NOT NULL default 10
);

If you are running the Apache Web Server or your web hosting provider running Apache based web server, you can use .htaccess configuration file to restrict access to your website. This could be a very important issue from security stand point of view especially if your server is being attacked or hacked from any specific or range of IP addresses.

Now, restricting access method works in two ways. First, you can restrict access to certain IP addresses and allow others. Second, you can restrict access to everyone but few IP addresses only. On this post, I will focus on both method and will try to explain as much as I can.

Restrict Certain IP Addresses

If you want to restrict specific IP addresses from accessing your site, you can use the following lines on your .htaccess file.

order deny,allow
deny from 123.4.5.6
deny from 654.3.2.1
allow from all

These lines above will block “123.4.5.6” and “654.3.2.1” IP addresses from accessing your site. You can add as many IP addresses as you want on this “deny from” list. One interesting fact is, Apache web server gives you lot more flexibility in terms of blocking IP addresses. Take a look at the following lines.

order deny,allow
deny from 123.4.5.
allow from all

If you observe it carefully, you will see that the fourth set of digit is missing on this IP address. It means, if any IP address that matches the first three set of digits will be blocked. So basically anyone with IP address like “123.4.5.1” or “123.4.5.244” won’t be able to access your site as in both IP address matches with the first three (123.4.5.) sets of digits blocked by the Apache web server.

Allow Specific IP Addresses

Think of about a site that you built for a very specific purpose and for very few people, where you do not want everyone to show up. Apache allows you to do that as well.

For an example, lets assume that you built a site that you want one of your friend to be able to access and his IP address is “123.4.5.12”. Simply write the following line on your .htaccess file and you are good to go.

order allow,deny
allow from 123.4.5.12
deny from all

In this case Apache will block all IP addresses except your friends IP address. This is as simple as it can get and I hope you got the basic idea.

Note: On all of my example I used either “allow from all” or “deny from all” at the bottom, this is very important. You must declare either one of these line based on your requirement or things might get little more complicated.

Also remember that all blocked IP addresses would be forwarded or shown an “403 Forbidden” error message. You can definitely customize this message as well but that’s something I will talk about in another post.

Source: iftekhar.net