Nginx HTTP Server by Clement Nedelcu

By Clement Nedelcu

Make the main of your infrastructure and serve pages quicker than ever with Nginx

Overview

  • Complete configuration directive and module reference
  • Discover attainable interactions among Nginx and Apache to get the simplest of either worlds
  • Learn to configure your servers and digital hosts efficiently
  • A step by step advisor to switching from Apache to Nginx

In Detail

Nginx is a light-weight HTTP server designed for high-traffic web pages, with community scalability because the fundamental target. With the appearance of excessive velocity web entry, brief loading occasions and quick move premiums became a need. This unfastened, open resource answer will both come as an entire alternative of alternative software program resembling Apache, or stand in entrance of your current infrastructure to enhance its total speed.

"Nginx HTTP Server - moment version" offers an in depth consultant to establishing Nginx in numerous ways in which correspond to real creation events: as a standalone server, as a opposite proxy, interacting with purposes through FastCGI and extra. moreover, the full directive reference could be your ally in any respect phases of the configuration and upkeep processes.

This publication is the fitting significant other for either Nginx newcomers and skilled directors. For novices, it's going to take you thru the entire means of developing this light-weight HTTP server in your method and configuring its a variety of modules to get it to just do what you would like, in a quick and safe approach. For more matured directors, this ebook presents varied angles of strategy which may assist you utilize your present infrastructure. Nginx may be hired in lots of occasions, even if you're looking to build a completely new web-serving structure or just are looking to combine an effective instrument to optimize your web site loading speeds.

This booklet takes you thru the setup and configuration of Nginx by means of detailing each step of ways, from downloading to configuring your server in a variety of universal architectures.

What you are going to study from this book

  • Download and construct Nginx from resource besides its dependencies
  • The fundamentals of Nginx configuration: syntax, constitution, semantics
  • Create digital host configurations effortlessly
  • Discover all first-party modules and the way to permit, configure and use them
  • Establish complicated rewrite ideas with the Nginx Rewrite module
  • Set up Nginx to paintings with Hypertext Preprocessor, Python and extra through FastCGI
  • Configure Nginx to paintings as a frontend to your current HTTP server
  • Learn easy methods to port your Apache rewrite principles via 3 functional examples
  • Troubleshoot if whatever is going improper with the server

Approach

This educational ebook comprises precise directions for every of the tactics it describes: downloading and fitting the appliance, configuring and utilizing modules, and lots more and plenty extra. It presents a step by step educational to interchange your current internet server with Nginx. With commented configuration sections and in-depth module descriptions, it is possible for you to to utilize the functionality capability provided by way of Nginx.

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By Clement Nedelcu

Make the main of your infrastructure and serve pages quicker than ever with Nginx

Overview

  • Complete configuration directive and module reference
  • Discover attainable interactions among Nginx and Apache to get the simplest of either worlds
  • Learn to configure your servers and digital hosts efficiently
  • A step by step advisor to switching from Apache to Nginx

In Detail

Nginx is a light-weight HTTP server designed for high-traffic web pages, with community scalability because the fundamental target. With the appearance of excessive velocity web entry, brief loading occasions and quick move premiums became a need. This unfastened, open resource answer will both come as an entire alternative of alternative software program resembling Apache, or stand in entrance of your current infrastructure to enhance its total speed.

"Nginx HTTP Server - moment version" offers an in depth consultant to establishing Nginx in numerous ways in which correspond to real creation events: as a standalone server, as a opposite proxy, interacting with purposes through FastCGI and extra. moreover, the full directive reference could be your ally in any respect phases of the configuration and upkeep processes.

This publication is the fitting significant other for either Nginx newcomers and skilled directors. For novices, it's going to take you thru the entire means of developing this light-weight HTTP server in your method and configuring its a variety of modules to get it to just do what you would like, in a quick and safe approach. For more matured directors, this ebook presents varied angles of strategy which may assist you utilize your present infrastructure. Nginx may be hired in lots of occasions, even if you're looking to build a completely new web-serving structure or just are looking to combine an effective instrument to optimize your web site loading speeds.

This booklet takes you thru the setup and configuration of Nginx by means of detailing each step of ways, from downloading to configuring your server in a variety of universal architectures.

What you are going to study from this book

  • Download and construct Nginx from resource besides its dependencies
  • The fundamentals of Nginx configuration: syntax, constitution, semantics
  • Create digital host configurations effortlessly
  • Discover all first-party modules and the way to permit, configure and use them
  • Establish complicated rewrite ideas with the Nginx Rewrite module
  • Set up Nginx to paintings with Hypertext Preprocessor, Python and extra through FastCGI
  • Configure Nginx to paintings as a frontend to your current HTTP server
  • Learn easy methods to port your Apache rewrite principles via 3 functional examples
  • Troubleshoot if whatever is going improper with the server

Approach

This educational ebook comprises precise directions for every of the tactics it describes: downloading and fitting the appliance, configuring and utilizing modules, and lots more and plenty extra. It presents a step by step educational to interchange your current internet server with Nginx. With commented configuration sections and in-depth module descriptions, it is possible for you to to utilize the functionality capability provided by way of Nginx.

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Error-logpath=… The location of your error log. Error logs can be configured very accurately in the configuration files. This path only applies in case you do not specify any error logging directive in your configuration. log. --pid-path=… The path of the Nginx pid file. You can specify the pid file path in the configuration file. If that's not the case, the value you specify for this switch will be used. pid. The location of the lock file. Again, it can be specified in the configuration file, but if it isn't, this value will be used.

The fact is that all of these applications use their own configuration file with different syntaxes and styles. ini file, sendmail uses the M4 macro-processor to compile configuration files, Zabbix pulls its configuration from a MySQL database, and so on. There is, unfortunately, no well-established standard, and the same applies to Nginx—you will be required to study a new syntax with its own particularities and its own vocabulary. Basic Nginx Configuration On the other hand (and this is one of its advantages), configuring Nginx turns out to be rather simple—at least in comparison to Apache or other mainstream web servers.

Path of the pid file for the Nginx daemon. The default value can be configured at compile time. Make sure to enable this directive and set its value properly, since the pid file may be used by the Nginx init script depending on your operating system. ssl_engine Syntax: Character string ssl_engine enginename; Default value: None Where enginename is the name of an available hardware SSL accelerator on your system. To check for available hardware SSL accelerators, run this command from the shell: openssl engine –t thread_stack_ size Syntax: Numeric (size) thread_stack_size 1m; Default value: None Defines the size of the thread stack; please refer to the worker_ threads directive below.

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