Social connection through online world is becoming more and more relevant these days. Even Google isn't ignoring it. While Google's Friend Connect was a success of some kind, it was still suffering from seamless integration with major CMS sources. But not anymore. Finally Google has come out with three Friend Connect plugins for Wordpress, Drupal and phpBB. webhole.net observes that anyone who is interested in your forum and blog will not need to make two accounts for your blog (wordpress) and forum (PhpBB) to participate. This will let less problems to occur when you switch between the two using the same account. Again you will not have to re-log each time you interchange and the annoying cookie management process will be out of the window.

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Nginx is a high performance web server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev and a good replacement for Apache HTTPD, the market leader. Nginx is rapidly increasing its market share with major websites joining it like wordpress.com. In the June 2008 Netcraft survey LiteSpeed lost more than 600 thousand sites during this survey, while nginx gained more than a million sites; more than doubling in numbers. The WordPress blogging system recently converted all of its load balancers to nginx, using the upstream hash module to serve 8-9 thousand requests per second. We too have decided to move some of our websites to Nginx. Here are few essential tips and general guidelines for configuring Nginx. This is not a substitute for reading the documentation (rtfm). However when you are stuck even after reading and re-reading the nginx documentation then read below. You will understand the value of the tips below only then

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We now have our phpBB forum running on Nginx web server, a high quality and significantly better performing web server than Apache HTTPD. Soem of the challenges we faced were:

1. We use nice permalinks in the forum so there are lots of apache httpd rewrite rules in .htaccess files which had to be converted to nginx format.
2. Additionally we also had to configure it for a virtual hosting setup where the same IP address (server) is shared by multiple websites.

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Users, including forum admins, sometimes gets message while editing a post, sometimes for quick edits and sometimes for longer edits - "The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again."

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