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NGINX Cookbook

By : Tim Butler
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NGINX Cookbook

By: Tim Butler

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Using Magento with NGINX

With nearly 30 percent market share, Magento is the most popular e-commerce platform in the world. Due to a number of features and complexity, it's also a very resource-intensive system to use compared to a lightweight alternative. This means that NGINX is an ideal pairing to ensure you have the highest performance possible.

The latest major version of Magento is 2.0, which was nearly a complete rewrite compared to the previous versions. There's still quite a bit of complexity involved too, so make sure that you're ready to take on Magento if you've chosen it for your e-commerce platform:

Getting ready

This guide assumes you're familiar with the installation of Magento 2.0...