Nginx HTTP server : harness the power of Nginx to make the most of your infrastructure and serve pages faster than ever / Clément Nedelcu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nedelcu, Clément, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HTTP (Computer network protocol).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Other Title:

Harness the power of Nginx to make the most of your infrastructure and serve pages faster than ever

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Nedelcu Clement: Clement Nedelcu was born in France and studied at UK, French, and Chinese universities. After teaching computer science, programming, and systems administration at several eastern Chinese universities, he worked as a technology consultant in France, specialized in the web and. NET software development as well as Linux server administration. Since 2005, he has also been administering a major network of websites in his spare time, which allowed him to discover Nginx. Clement now works as CTO. for a Singapore-based company developing management software for schools.

Summary:

Harness the power of Nginx to make the most of your infrastructure and serve pages faster than ever About This Book Discover possible interactions between Nginx and Apache to get the best of both worlds Learn to exploit the features offered by NGinx for your web applications Get the newest techniques available, designed with the latest version in mind Who This Book Is For By covering both the early setup stages and advanced topics, this book suits web administrators who interested in solutions to optimize their infrastructure, whether you are looking into replacing your existing web server software or integrating a new tool to cooperate with applications that are already up and running. If you, your visitors, and your operating system have been disappointed by Apache, this book is exactly what you need. What You Will Learn Get to know the basics of the Nginx configuration: syntax, structure, and semantics Understand the advanced load balancing functionality of Nginx and the newest innovative IO mechanisms Create virtual host configurations effortlessly Discover all the first-party modules: how to enable, configure, and use them Establish advanced rewrite rules with the Nginx Rewrite module Set up Nginx to work with PHP, Python, and more via FastCGI Configure Nginx to work as frontend for your existing HTTP server Manipulate configuration files with ease and adapt them to various situations Discover the common pitfalls and find out how to avoid them In Detail Nginx is a lightweight HTTP server designed for high-traffic websites, with network scalability as the primary objective. With the advent of high speed Internet access, short loading times and fast transfer rates have become a necessity. This free, open source solution will either come as a full replacement of other software such as Apache, or stand in front of your existing infrastructure to improve its overall speed. This book is a detailed guide to setting up Nginx in different ways that correspond to actual production situations: as a standalone server, as a reverse proxy, interacting with applications via FastCGI, and more. In addition, this complete directive reference will be your best friend at all stages of the configuration and maintenance processes. This book is the perfect companion for both Nginx beginners and experienced administrators. For beginners, it will take you through the complete process of setting up this lightweight HTTP server on your system and configuring its va...

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Downloading and Installing Nginx; Setting up the prerequisites; The GNU Compiler Collection; The PCRE library; The zlib library; OpenSSL; Downloading Nginx; Websites and resources; Version branches; Features; Downloading and extracting; Configure options; The easy way; Path options; Prerequisites options; Module options; Modules enabled by default; Modules disabled by default; Miscellaneous options; Configuration examples; About the prefix switch

Regular HTTP and HTTPS serversAll modules enabled; Mail server proxy; Build configuration issues; Make sure you installed the prerequisites; Directories exist and must be writable; Compiling and installing the program; Controlling the Nginx service; Daemons and services; User and group; Nginx command-line switches; Starting and stopping the daemon; Testing the configuration; Other switches; Adding Nginx as a system service; System V scripts; About init scripts; The init script for Debian-based distributions; The init script for Red Hat-based distributions; Installing the script

Debian-based distributionsRed Hat-based distributions; NGINX Plus; Summary; Chapter 2: Basic Nginx Configuration; Configuration file syntax; Configuration directives; Organization and inclusions; Directive blocks; Advanced language rules; Directives accept specific syntaxes; Diminutives in directive values; Variables; String values; Base module directives; What are base modules?; The Nginx process architecture; Core module directives; The Events module; The Configuration module; Necessary adjustments; Testing your server; Creating a test server; Performance tests; Httperf; Autobench

OpenWebLoadUpgrading Nginx gracefully; Summary; Chapter 3: HTTP Configuration; The HTTP Core module; Structure blocks; Module directives; Socket and host configuration; listen; server_name; server_name_in_redirect; server_names_hash_max_size; server_names_hash_bucket_size; port_in_redirect; tcp_nodelay; tcp_nopush; sendfile; sendfile_max_chunk; send_lowat; reset_timedout_connection; Paths and documents; root; alias; error_page; if_modified_since; index; recursive_error_pages; try_files; Client requests; keepalive_requests; keepalive_timeout; keepalive_disable; send_timeout

client_body_in_file_onlyclient_body_in_single_buffer; client_body_buffer_size; client_body_temp_path; client_body_timeout; client_header_buffer_size; client_header_timeout; client_max_body_size; large_client_header_buffers; lingering_time; lingering_timeout; lingering_close; ignore_invalid_headers; chunked_transfer_encoding; max_ranges; MIME types; types; default_type; types_hash_max_size; types_hash_bucket_size; Limits and restrictions; limit_except; limit_rate; limit_rate_after; satisfy; internal; File processing and caching; disable_symlinks; directio; directio_alignment; open_file_cache

open_file_cache_errors

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 4, 2016).

ISBN:

9781785285912

1785285912

OCLC:

931716525