NGINX cookbook : make the most of your web server / Tim Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Tim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web servers--Computer programs.

Web servers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Butler Tim: Tim Butler is currently working in the web hosting industry and has nearly 20 years of experience. He currently maintains hyper-converged storage/compute platforms and is an architect of high throughput web logging and monitoring solutions. You can follow him on Twitter using his Twitter handle, @timbutler, where he (infrequently) posts about hosting, virtualization, NGINX, containers, and a few other hobbies.

Summary:

A practical book on real-world NGINX deployments to get you up and running quickly. About This Book Be the first to immerse yourself in the NGINX 1.9x web server and explore the plethora of advanced features. Master the skills of load balancing TCP-based applications and implementing HTTP/2. A recipe-based approach book that provides you with up-to-date information on NGINX, allowing you to implement specific use cases immediately. Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at smaller-to-medium developers, who are just getting started with NGINX. It assumes they already understand the basics of how a web server works and how basic networking works. What You Will Learn Practical, real-world examples and recipes on how to use NGINX Common CMS deployments such as WordPress, Joomla and more NGINX configurations for frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Django and more Detailed SSL recipes, including HTTP/2 Real world rewrite examples Basic web and TCP load balancing configuration Bandwidth management and connection limiting Detailed NGINX deployment scenarios with Docker Performance tuning and monitoring of your NGINX deployments OpenResty deployment guides Advanced deployments with NGINX Plus features In Detail NGINX Cookbook covers the basics of configuring NGINX as a web server for use with common web frameworks such as WordPress and Ruby on Rails, through to utilization as a reverse proxy. Designed as a go-to reference guide, this book will give you practical answers based on real-world deployments to get you up and running quickly. Recipes have also been provided for multiple SSL configurations, different logging scenarios, practical rewrites, and multiple load balancing scenarios. Advanced topics include covering bandwidth management, Docker container usage, performance tuning, OpenResty, and the NGINX Plus commercial features. By the time you've read this book, you will be able to adapt and use a wide variety of NGINX implementations to solve any problems you have.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Let's Get Started

Introduction

A quick installation guide

How to do it...

Packages - RHEL/CentOS

Packages - Debian/Ubuntu

Compiling from scratch

Debian/Ubuntu

CentOS/RHEL

Testing

There's more...

Configuring NGINX

How it works...

Enabling modules

See also

Deploying a basic site

Basic monitoring

Real-time statistics

Chapter 2: Common PHP Scenarios

Configuring NGINX for WordPress

Getting ready

WordPress multisite with NGINX

Subdomains

Running Drupal using NGINX

Using NGINX with MediaWiki

Using Magento with NGINX

Configuring NGINX for Joomla

Chapter 3: Common Frameworks

Setting up Django with NGINX

How it works....

Setting up NGINX with Express

Running Ruby on Rails with NGINX

Easy Flask with NGINX

Laravel via NGINX

Meteor applications with NGINX.

Getting ready

High speed Beego with NGINX

Chapter 4: All About SSLs

Basic SSL certificates

Enabling HTTP/2 on NGINX

Configuring HSTS in NGINX

Easy SSL certificates with Let's Encrypt

Making NGINX PCI DSS compliant

OCSP stapling with NGINX

Achieving full A+ Qualys rating

Chapter 5: Logging

Logging to syslog

Remote syslog

Customizing web access logs

Virtual host log format

Application focused logging

Logging TLS mode and cipher information

Logging POST data

Conditional logging

Using the Elastic Stack

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Chapter 6: Rewrites

Redirecting non-www to www-based sites

Redirecting to a new domain

Blocking malicious user agents

Redirecting all calls to HTTPS to secure your site

Redirecting pages and directories

Single page redirect

Full directory redirect

Redirecting 404 errors through a search page

Chapter 7: Reverse Proxy

Introduction.

Configuring NGINX as a simple reverse proxy

Content caching with NGINX

Monitoring cache status

Microcaching

Serving from cache when your backend is down

SSL termination proxy

Rate limiting

Chapter 8: Load Balancing

Basic balancing techniques

Round robin load balancing

Least connected load balancing

Hash-based load balancing

Testing and debugging NGINX load balancing

TCP / application load balancing

Easy testing

NGINX as an SMTP load balancer

Chapter 9: Advanced Features

Authentication with NGINX

WebDAV with NGINX

Bandwidth management with NGINX

Connection limiting with NGINX

How it works.

There's more...

Header modification with NGINX

Caching static content

Removing server name and version

Extra debug headers

Chapter 10: Docker Containers

Installing Docker&amp

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NGINX web server via Docker

NGINX reverse proxy via Docker

Docker Compose with NGINX

NGINX load balancing with Docker

Chapter 11: Performance Tuning

Gzipping content in NGINX

Enhancing NGINX with keep alive

Tuning worker processes and connections

Worker processes

Worker connections

Fine tuning basic Linux system limits

Integrating ngx_pagespeed

Chapter 12: OpenResty

Installing OpenResty

CentOS

Ubuntu

Getting started with OpenResty Lua

Lua microservices with OpenResty

Simple hit counter with a Redis backend

Powering API Gateways with OpenResty.

Chapter 13: NGINX Plus - The Commercial Offering

Installing NGINX Plus

Real-time server activity monitoring

Dynamic config reloading

Session persistence

Cookie-based tracking

Learn-based tracking

Route-based tracking

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 26, 2017).

OCLC:

1004746827