php-fpm monitoring for single domain

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Ran into this one recently and the solution came out of left field, so I thought I'd throw it out to the internet at large. I've got a server which is running php-fpm and nginx. However it has several websites running on it, each of which has its own php-fpm/pool.d/ profile. We were having a problem with one of the websites, which got a lot more traffic than the others, so we needed a way to monitor its php-fpm performance.

Setting up php monitoring is not hard. There are many guides around the internet. You put the line 

pm.status_path = /status

in your fpm pool file, then add a block to your nginx config so that it can only be accessed by certain IP addresses.

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Mysql 8 Binary Logs ON by default

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I'm not sure how typing this in my quiet corner of the internet will be effective in broadcasting the message, but this is a Big Deal for server administrators. Previously binary logging was disabled by default, but now, with the default settings, if you have a busy database server, pretty soon you'll have a hefty … Read more

Troubleshooting postfix using bcc to local user

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After routing mail through postfix to an external relay server (in this case gmail's smtp relay), all the mail from a server was routing correctly. Except after a couple of days I noticed a couple of strange bounces. Authentication at the gmail end was by IP address and domain, so any address [email protected] could be used to send email. But these were coming from [email protected] so were being rejected with a helpful message by gmail.

The IP address you've 550-5.7.1 registered in your G Suite SMTP Relay service doesn't match domain of 550-5.7.1 the account this email is being sent from. If you are trying to relay 550-5.7.1 mail from a domain that isn't registered under your G Suite account 550-5.7.1 or has empty envelope-from, you must configure your mail server 550-5.7.1 either to use SMTP AUTH to identify the sending domain or to present 550-5.7.1 one of your domain names in the HELO or EHLO command. For more 550-5.7.1 information, please visit 550 5.7.1 https://support.google.com/a/answer/6140680

Pretty helpful as messages go. Less helpful was the fact that there were several websites on the server and a couple of other apps, and I didn't have access to the admin panels of any of them. The mails, once bounced, were removed from postfix's queue, never to be seen again. Time for some detective work.

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