PacktLib: Nginx HTTP Server

Nginx HTTP Server

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

Preparing your Work Environment

Setting up a terminal emulator

Basic shell commands

Discovering the Linux filesystem

System administration tools

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Downloading and Installing Nginx

Setting up the prerequisites

Downloading Nginx

Configure options

Controlling the Nginx service

Adding Nginx as a system service

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Basic Nginx Configuration

Configuration file syntax

Base module directives

A configuration for your profile

Testing your server

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HTTP Configuration

HTTP Core module

Module directives

Module variables

The Location block

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Module Configuration

Rewrite module

SSI module

Additional modules

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PHP and Python with Nginx

Introduction to FastCGI

PHP with Nginx

Python and Nginx

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Apache and Nginx Together

Nginx as reverse proxy

Nginx Proxy module

Configuring Apache and Nginx

Additional steps

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From Apache to Nginx

Nginx versus Apache

Porting your Apache configuration

Rewrite rules

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Directive Index

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Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting