Category Archives: Helicon Ape

Enabling site authentication not using Windows users

Sometimes you may want to add simple user authorization to your site, but it’s unlikely or impossible to use Windows users system. In such case a suitable solution is offered by HTTP authentication/authorization system implemented in Helicon Ape mod_auth fellowship.In … Continue reading

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ISAPI_Rewrite FAQ

No so long ago we’ve posted this FAQ on our forum and quite a lot of our clients found it helpful. This compilation covers some of the most tricky questions concerning ISAPI_Rewrite3 (and actually Helicon Ape mod_rewrite module). And we … Continue reading

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HTTP Authentication and Authorization

Let’s start with definitions: Authentication or authenticity check is a comparison of person’s real credentials with the ones he enters (e.g. login and password). Authorization is the process of granting rights to a user (or a group of users) to … Continue reading

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Helicon Ape Manager – 10 helpful tips

Although we tried to make Helicon Ape Manager as easy-to-use, friendly and intuitive as possible, some features may not be obvious and are worth mentioning.

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Exploding myths about mod_rewrite. Part I

For many years mod_rewrite was considered enigmatic and incomprehensible voodoo art. We want to shatter this myth and illustrate that mod_rewrite can be easy and handy instrument for everyone who is at least slightly acquainted with regular expressions (more info … Continue reading

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Introduction to mod_gzip

Every day millions of web-servers around the world receive billions of bytes of network traffic. Each year the speed of Internet connections increases. Hosting providers offer perfect tariffs. It seems the mankind is going to forget about traffic saving problem … Continue reading

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Example of mod_cache application

In the previous articles we told you what cache is and how it works in Helicon Ape. Now it’s time to use obtained knowledge in practice. Today we gonna apply caching for PHP application called qdig that helps organize images … Continue reading

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Improvements in Helicon Ape release version

For those still hesitating whether to try release version of Helicon Ape or not we want to outline the mian differences between release and beta. So, release (unlike beta) includes: mod_cache module to reduce traffic by caching HTTP content mod_gzip … Continue reading

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Helicon Ape released!

It has happened! Helicon Ape has been released and is now available for download and purchase!

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How mod_cache works?

Helicon Ape release (coming very-very soon) will contain mod_cache module. And as we promised in our previous article we are now giving you more thorough description of mod_cache operation.

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