nginx (pronounced “engine-x”) is a lightweight, high-performance Web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy, licensed under a BSD-like license.
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Nginx blocking webstes with proxy_pass
I have an Nginx script that proxied HTTP request using this:
proxy_pass http://$http_host$uri$is_args$args;
I have a list of websites and I want to make it just these ones accessbile by the proxy. ...
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How to check if my vps has installed Nginx + PHP-FPM + APC? [on hold]
how can i check if the vps that i run has installed Nginx + PHP-FPM + APC?
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Free / open source alternative cpanel / whm / plesk control panel for Nginx? [closed]
Are there any free / open source alternative control panels, to replace cPanel / WHM / Pleask, that work with Nginx servers ?
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PDFlib doesn't work in php but is installed [closed]
When I want to use PDFlib I get:
Fatal error: Class 'PDF_new' not found in /var/www[site]/test.php on line 2
But when I run phpinfo() I get this: http://i.stack.imgur.com/vP0lL.png
PDF Support ...
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PHP-FPM stops responding and dies [migrated]
I'm running Drupal 6 with Nginx 1.5.1 and PHP-FPM (PHP 5.3.26) on a 1GB single core VPS with 3GB of swap space on SSD storage. I just switched from shared hosting to this unmanaged VPS because my site ...
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How to query MySQL to build Nginx configuration file?
Is it possible to have a MySQL query in my Nginx config?
For example:
server {
listen 80;
$domain = [a way to get the current domain];
$server_info = [a way to do the ...
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Nginx 403 even after chmod 777, changing user to root [closed]
I just need to setup a development environment with Nginx. I have setup an alias/location in nginx.conf
user http;
...
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
...
location ...
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Nginx Browser Caching using HTTP Headers outside server/location block
I am having difficulty setting the HTTP expires headers for Nginx outside of specific server (and then location) blocks. What I want is to something like the following:
location ~* ...
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Google Analytics and framesets
I have a simple web page hosted in an EC2 machine, using nginx. Let's say my web page is reachable by:
http://<my_ec2_machine_static_ip>/my_web_page
I've put a Google Analytics tracking code ...
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Is static HTML the fastest?
I have been researching several different techniques to deliver web content fast, like nginx and node.js.
When it comes down to performance optimization http expires headers and gzip come to mind. ...
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1answer
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Simple RewriteRule [duplicate]
I'm trying to write a RewriteRule to make a simple url. I want users to be able to type enter
www.example.com/somepage
and have it take them to
www.example.com/abc/somepage.php
How can this be ...
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Ruby on Rails - Passenger Nginx - 403 Forbidden
I've been searching for an answer for a long time now so I'll just try here...
I'm trying to get an Ruby on Rails application running with passenger and nginx but I'm getting 403 forbidden when I'm ...
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nginx proxy_pass 404 error, don't understand why
trying to pass off all calls to /api to my webservice but I keep getting 404s with the following config. Calls to / return index.html as expected. Does anyone know why ?
upstream backend{
server ...
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Why does modx-based site start using different domains for some content?
situation
I have a modx site on a VPS with multiple domain and subdomain names. The modx site should use what I call the 'primary' domain name's 'primary' subdomain, ie www.intendedname.tld . The ...
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How to get rid of this webpage that has a redirect loop?
I'm having an RnD in my local machine. My local dev is working fine with Apache until I decided to add Nginx. The error is the following one:
This webpage has a redirect loop
Error 310 ...
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1answer
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Google indexed my site through a subdomain, how to fix?
So I recently switched to nginx but I didn't specify my site_name in nginx.conf, which I've learned is interpreted as a wildcard domain, meaning you can access the site through any subdomain. I had a ...
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Which webserver to use for multiple sites? [closed]
Which webserver should I use if I'm going to host about 30 sites and all are using Wordpress. Each site receives about 1k+ visitors daily. Which webserver should I use apache or nginx? I only have 1GB ...
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How to encrypt link between NGINX and proxy server [closed]
I have a server running on a DMZ with NGINX acting as a reverse proxy. The app itself is inside the secure network (on another server). At present, NGINX is merely forwarding all SSL requests to the ...
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Managing Multiple dedicated servers centrally using a Web GUI tools? [closed]
Application Architecture
I am having a single ruby on rails application code running with multiple instances (ie. each client having identical sub domains) running on a multiple dedicated server ...
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2answers
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What is the default behavior of Cache-Control
If no private nor public were defined in the cache-control, e.g.
Cache-Control: max-age=31461276
What is the expected behavior?
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multiple godaddy domains to home router then reverse proxy to multiple internal servers [closed]
I need someone to steer me correctly... advising on all required components.
I have multiple domains with godaddy, say site1.com , site2.com, site3.net
I have multiple home LAMP servers... one on ...
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viewing values of all parameters of nginx for a particular request
Is it possible to see the values of all the parameters of nginx for a particular request like if i request for localhost/myfolder/page.php what are the values of $request_uri, $document_uri, ...
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1answer
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Vbulletin on nginx?
As an nginx fan, I need to set up a VB for a friend so I am wondering whether one can server VB site using nginx/php-fpm instead of apache? What are the specefic rewrite rules for that? How common ...
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Trouble with images in phppgAdmin on my Nginx VPS
this is my first time using Nginx or phppgAdmin, and after placing the phppgadmin folder into my public_html folder I find that the resources for the phppgadmin page are broken, images and css ...
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How to block baidu spiders
Most of my visits are from baidu spiders. I don't think it helps search engines at all so I'm thinking of how to block them. Could this be done via iptables? I'm using nginx as my webserver.
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Nginx or Apache for a VPS? [closed]
I consider myself to be an inexperienced user/administrator when it comes to running my VPS. I can get by with a few CLI commands, I can set up Webmin and I can set up Yum repos, but beyond the very ...
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Permissions & File Structure w/ nginx & multiple sites
I am using nginx for the first time as a long time Apache user. I setup a Linode to test everything and to eventually port over my websites.
Previously I had /home/user/www (wwwroot)
I am looking ...
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Nginx 404 not working with PHP?
I have a 404 file and it is working with nginx. However when I modify the 404 file to redirect the user it does not redirect.
visiting http://site.com/404.php redirects the user.
visiting ...
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1answer
762 views
Wordpress website with slow response (only for the first request)
I've a weird issue with my wordpress website ( http://rohitnair.info/) . The "first request" takes ages to respond. Any subsequent requests behave normally. Things I've observed while debugging
...
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1answer
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Nginx negating condition/ if else
I've came into situation where I cannot find a way around it, neither with tons googling.
valid_referers none blocked something.com;
if ($invalid_referer) {
rewrite ^ /leech.jpg;
expires ...
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1answer
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PHPFox caching? [closed]
I run a big phpfox website and I currently have server setup as follows:
nginx (reverse proxy) --> Apache for dynamic content
are there other ways to cache content with phpfox?
I can't use memcache ...
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1answer
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nginx proxy rewrite not matching
I'm setting Nginx to forward requests to several backend services using proxy_pass
A few of them I have to add rewrite rules to strip the folder off, however for this particular service, the rewrite ...
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2answers
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Nginx frontend, Apache backend, and Magento
I've got a Magento installation, which works perfectly from a customer's point of view. However, when you try and do batch tasks with the admin, nginx often closes the connection to the browser early, ...
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Why there suddenly were so many 400 request in my access log?
Below are little part of my access_log
118.186.8.50 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:42:57 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"
05
118.186.8.50 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:42:57 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"
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118.186.8.50 - - ...
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NginX redirect to PHP file if image does not exist on file server
This is what I am trying to do. I am not familiar with Nginx enough to create custom rewrite rules like you can with Apache. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could help me with the Nginx ...
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1answer
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Nginx: different content to specific request method
I have the image in the URL (my server): http://www.example.com/example.jpg
If my user put this image URL on his site: return the image (normal).
If my user put this image URL on his browser: return ...
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What the Nginx Control panel? [closed]
What the Nginx Control panel?
What the Nginx Control panel?
and Free
thanks
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1answer
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How to avoid leeching files?
I use Kleeja script to host files and noticed that certain files are downloaded many more times than the site's visit counter indicates. So I assume that the files are being leeched. The web server is ...
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1answer
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Unlimited free sitemap generator for Nginx? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Looking for a sitemap generator
Google has listed a couple of SMGs but I don't want to try every single one to find the best. Google's own Sitemap Generator is released ...
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1answer
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What does the '^' mean in “rewrite ^ http://test.com permanent;”
I found some configuration of nginx contains:
if($args ^~ post=140) {
rewrite ^ http://test.com/ permanent;
}
What does the ^ mean in rewrite ^ http://test.com/ permanent?
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1answer
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Lightweight PHP-supporting webserver: Nginx, Cherokee, or Hiawatha?
I had asked this question on ServerFault, but nobody answered satisfactorily, so I re-ask here.
I want a lightweight webserver. The requirements are:
PHP support
HTTPS support
Virtual domains (we ...
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1answer
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Redirecting to a specific page if the visitor used a certain name to resolve the server address
How can I get visitors redirected to a specific html page if the name used to resolve the server address was a specific one? I tried
if ($http_host ~ /forbiddenname/)
{
rewrite ^(.*)$ ...
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1answer
498 views
Significant number of non-HTTP requests hitting my site
I'm seeing a significant number of non-HTTP requests hitting a site I just launched. They show up in the server (nginx) logs as non-ASCII and get rejected (correctly) with a 400 status. Here are ...
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Can I skip the PEM pass phrase question when I restart the webserver?
After buying a multi-domain SSL certificate I have started testing it with the Nginx webserver (following documentation in their SSL wiki page).
Everything is fine, it works and I get a green ...
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Multi site wordpress setup
Currently my company has 3 blogs and what I did was to install three instances of wordpress over Apache/MySQL, in different directories. The problem is that I have a Slicehost VPS with 256Mb RAM with ...
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Is it worth looking into a webserver other than apache?
I've traditionally deployed my sites under apache, simply by default. I've heard things about NGinX though and I'm wondering under which conditions it would be superior. In addition to apache and ...
