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Nginx Essentials

Nginx Essentials

By : Kholodkov, Valery I Kholodkov
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Nginx Essentials

Nginx Essentials

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By: Kholodkov, Valery I Kholodkov
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Overview of this book

This book is ideal for skilled web masters and site reliability engineers who want to switch to Nginx or solidify their knowledge of Nginx. Knowledge of Unix and webmaster skills are required.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Getting Started with Nginx
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1. Getting Started with Nginx
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Installing Nginx
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Configuring Nginx
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Summary
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2. Managing Nginx
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2. Managing Nginx
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The Nginx connection processing architecture
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Starting and stopping Nginx
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Control signals and their usage
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Distribution-specific startup scripts
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Allocating worker processes
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Setting up Nginx to serve static data
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Installing SSL certificates
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Managing temporary files
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Communicating issues to developers
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3. Proxying and Caching
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3. Proxying and Caching
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Nginx as a reverse proxy
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Setting up Nginx as a reverse proxy
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Caching
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Summary
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4. Rewrite Engine and Access Control
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4. Rewrite Engine and Access Control
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The basics of the rewrite engine
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Access control
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5. Managing Inbound and Outbound Traffic
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5. Managing Inbound and Outbound Traffic
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Managing inbound traffic
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Managing outbound traffic
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6. Performance Tuning
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6. Performance Tuning
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Optimizing static file retrieval
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Enabling response compression
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Optimizing buffer allocation
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Enabling SSL session reuse
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Worker processes allocation on multi-core systems
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Enabling response compression

Performance of your website can be improved by enabling response compression using GZIP. Compression reduces the size of a response body, reduces the bandwidth required to transfer the response data, and ultimately makes sure the resources of your website are delivered to the client side sooner.

Compression can be enabled using the gzip directive:

location / {
    gzip on;
    [...]
}

This directive is valid in the http, server, location, and if sections. Specifying off as the first argument of this directive disables compression in the corresponding location if it was enabled in outer sections.

By default, only documents with MIME type text/HTML are compressed. To enable compression for other types of documents, use the gzip_types directive:

location / {
    gzip on;
    gzip_types text/html text/plain text/css application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
    [...]
}

The preceding configuration enables compression for MIME...

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