Nginx is a lightweight, high performance web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy. It runs on UNIX, GNU/Linux, BSD variants, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows. According to Netcraft, 6% of all domains on the Internet use nginx webserver. Nginx is one of a handful of servers written to address the C10K problem. Unlike [...]
If you do not control or throttle end users, your server may run out of resources. Spammers, abuser and badly written bots can eat up all your bandwidth. A webserver must keep an eye on connections and limit connections per second. This is serving 101. The default is no limit. Lighttpd can limit the throughput [...]
Geolocation software is used to get the geographic location of visitor using IP address. You can determine country, organization and guess visitors location. This is useful for a] Fraud detection b] Geo marketing and ad serving c] Target content d] Spam fighting e] And much more. mod_geoip is a Lighttpd module for fast ip/location lookups. [...]
Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Debian Squeeze server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support. I do not issue any guarantee that this [...]
Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 11.04 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. I do not issue any guarantee that this [...]
This article explains how you can set up SSL vhosts under nginx on Ubuntu 11.04 and Debian Squeeze so that you can access the vhost over HTTPS (port 443). SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer and is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks by encrypting segments of network connections at [...]
I try to use Nginx as a reverse proxy to see if there is any improvement over Apache Worker MPM or not. I found an instruction from DirectAdmin webboard but it’s quite old. So, I just tried to follow their steps and do some modification to match what I have read. Below is what I [...]
My server went down today and after restarting, it came up with a “Nginx 502 Bad Gateway” message. At first I thought its something related to the Nginx service, so restarted the nginx service but immediately realized it wasn’t the case. Nginx receives a request on port 80 and it then proxies the request to [...]
The HTTP rewrite module requires the PCRE library during the Nginx compilation. The PCRE package contains Perl Compatible Regular Expression libraries useful for implementing regular expression pattern matching. If PCRE is not installed on the server, it will result in the following error message during the Nginx compliation: checking for PCRE library … not found [...]
This instruction describes how to use nginx as reverse proxy for apache, also I’ll show some tips how use nginx for heavy loaded sites. Majority of my servers are freebsd boxes, so this howto oriented on freebsd, but I’ll show some tips for linux too. Nginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse [...]
