Tweaking Ubuntu Apache

I’ve been trying to better tweak my Ubuntu instances Digital Ocean has a great article. There is also a great article on serverfault on configuring MaxRequestWorkers

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

<VirtualHost>
    <files xmlrpc.php>
      order allow,deny
      deny from all
    </files>
</VirtualHost>


<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>`
  StartServers                    2
  MinSpareServers                 2
  MaxSpareServers                 5
  MaxRequestWorkers               XXX
  ServerLimit                     XXX
  MaxConnectionsPerChild          0
</IfModule>

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

order allow,deny

deny from all

</files>

</VirtualHost>

<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>`

StartServers 2

MinSpareServers 2

MaxSpareServers 5

MaxRequestWorkers XXX

ServerLimit XXX

MaxConnectionsPerChild 0

</IfModule>