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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)

WebDAV with NGINX

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is an extension to the standard HTTP protocol that allows remote authoring commands, such as the ability to lock, upload, delete, and create content.

This content can be in the form of documents, images, objects, and more. While its popularity has declined with the rapid update of full CMSes and cloud storage platforms such as Dropbox, WebDAV still remains a very simple option to implement solutions.

Getting ready

The standard NGINX installation only includes basic WebDAV support; however, we can extend it to provide the full functionality by compiling a custom module. At the time of writing, the extended module hadn't been converted into a dynamic module...