Nginx 1 Web Server Implementation Cookbook Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: The Core HTTP Module
Chapter 2: All About Rewrites: The Rewrite Module
Chapter 3: Get It All Logged: The Logging Module
Chapter 4: Slow Them Down: Access and Rate Limiting Module
Chapter 5: Let's be Secure: Security Modules
Chapter 6: Setting Up Applications: FCGI and WSGI Modules
Chapter 7: Nginx as a Reverse Proxy
Chapter 8: Improving Performance and SEO Using Nginx
Chapter 9: Using Other Third-party Modules
Chapter 10: Some More Third-party Modules
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: The Core HTTP Module
• Introduction
• Installing new modules and compiling Nginx
• Running Nginx in debug mode
• Easy reloading of Nginx using the CLI
• Splitting configuration files for better management
• Setting up multiple virtual hosts
• Setting up a default catch-all virtual host
• Using wildcards in virtual hosts
• Setting up the number of worker processes correctly
• Increasing the size of uploaded files
• Using dynamic SSI for simple sites
• Adding content before and after a particular page
• Enabling auto indexing of a directory
• Serving any random web page from a directory
• Serving cookies for identifying and logging users
• Re-encoding the response to another encoding
• Enabling Gzip compression on some content types
• Setting up 404 and other error pages

• Chapter 2: All About Rewrites: The Rewrite Module
• Introduction
• Setting up a simple redirect
• Using variables in your rewrite
• Using cookies for your rewrites
• Using browser agents for your rewrites
• Using rate limits as a condition for rewrites
• Blocking requests based on HTTP referrers
• Serving maintenance page when deploying
• Setting up a WordPress site with static file serving
• Setting up a Drupal site with static file serving
• Setting up a Magento site with static file serving
• Converting your Apache's .htaccess into Nginx rewrites
• Using maps to make configurations cleaner

• Chapter 3: Get It All Logged: The Logging Module
• Introduction
• Setting up error log path and levels
• Logging it like Apache
• Disabling logging of 404 in error logs
• Using different logging profiles in the same setup
• Enabling a log file cache
• Utilizing separate error logs per virtual host
• Setting up log rotation
• Enabling remote logging with syslog-ng
• Setting up your custom logs for easy parsing

• Chapter 4: Slow Them Down: Access and Rate Limiting Module
• Introduction
• Limiting requests for any given session
• Blocking and allowing access using IP
• Setting up simple rate limiting for a download directory
• Rate limiting search engine bots
• Setting up GeoIP using the MaxMind country database
• Using the GeoIP module to set up access and rate control

• Chapter 5: Let's be Secure: Security Modules
• Introduction
• Setting up HTTP auth for access control
• Generating a secure link for files
• Setting up HTTPS for a simple site
• Using non standard error codes for debugging SSL setup
• Using wildcard certificates with multiple servers
• Using Nginx SSL variables for rewrite rules

• Chapter 6: Setting Up Applications: FCGI and WSGI Modules
• Introduction
• Setting up a PHP FCGI site
• Setting up a Python site using uWSGI
• Modifying FCGI timeouts
• Utilizing FCGI cache to speed it up
• Using multiple FCGI backends

• Chapter 7: Nginx as a Reverse Proxy
• Introduction
• Using Nginx as a simple reverse proxy
• Setting up a rails site using Nginx as a reverse proxy
• Setting up correct reverse proxy timeouts
• Setting up caching on the reverse proxy
• Using multiple backends for the reverse proxy
• Serving CGI files using thttpd and Nginx
• Setting up load balancing with reverse proxy
• Splitting requests based on various conditions using split-clients

• Chapter 8: Improving Performance and SEO Using Nginx
• Introduction
• Setting up TCP options correctly for optimizing performance
• Reducing the keep-alives to free up Nginx workers
• Using Memcached as the cache backend
• Configuring the right event model and file limits
• Setting max-age expiry headers for client-side caching
• Blocking scrapers, bots, and spiders to save bandwidth
• Redirection of www to non-www domain for SEO
• Removing all white space from response
• Setting up server status for monitoring
• Setting up Munin for 24x7 Nginx monitoring
• Enabling GZIP pre-compression
• Preventing hotlinking using Nginx
• Using embedded Perl to minify JavaScript files
• Using embedded Perl to minify CSS files
• Using embedded Perl to serve sitemaps (SEO)
• Setting up Boost module on Drupal with Nginx
• Setting up streaming for Flash files
• Utilizing the 1x1 GIF serving module to do offline processing

• Chapter 9: Using Other Third-party Modules
• Introduction
• Setting up an IMAP/POP3 proxy server
• Setting up authentication for mail services
• Setting up SSL for mail authentication
• Using Nginx as a WEBDAV reverse proxy
• Dynamic image resizing using Nginx
• Replacing and searching text in Nginx response
• Assembling ZIP files on the fly
• Using Nginx as a HTTP publish-subscribe server
• Transforming XML responses using XSLT templates
• Setting up Etags for static content
• Easy logging of page load times
• Streaming of MP4/H.264 files
• Setting up SCGI sites
• Setting up expiring links

• Chapter 10: Some More Third-party Modules
• Introduction
• Configuring a fair load balancing
• Setting up health checks for backend servers
• Tracking and reporting file upload progress
• Generating circles for round edges using Nginx
• Running Python using Phusion Passenger
• Generating graphs directly from RRDtool in Nginx
• Using Google performance tools
• Serving content directly from GridFS
• Configuring Basic HTTP auth using PAM
• Configuring Basic HTTP auth using Kerberos

• Index