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NGINX HTTP Server

NGINX HTTP Server - Fifth Edition

By : Gabriel Ouiran, Nedelcu, Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald
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NGINX HTTP Server

NGINX HTTP Server

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By: Gabriel Ouiran, Nedelcu, Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald

Overview of this book

Explore the capabilities of NGINX, a robust HTTP server designed for handling high-traffic websites, with network scalability as its primary objective. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced administrator, this NGINX book will guide you through the complete process of setting up this lightweight HTTP server, from quick and basic configurations to more detailed configurations tailored to your needs. Highlighting the latest version 1.25.2, featuring new features such as HTTP/3 and QUIC, this edition keeps you up to date with cutting-edge developments. This book is packed with a multitude of real-world examples, which will help you secure your infrastructure with automatic TLS certificates, expertly place NGINX in front of your existing applications, and do much more. From orchestration and Docker to bandwidth management, OpenResty, and NGINX Plus commercial features, you’ll get to grips with enhancing and optimizing your infrastructure or designing brand-new architecture. Moreover, this updated edition will show you how NGINX excels in cloud environments with guides on integrating NGINX with cloud services for deploying scalable architectures efficiently and securely. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to adapt and use a wide variety of NGINX implementations to tackle diverse challenges with confidence.
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Part 1:Begin with NGINX
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Part 2: Dive into NGINX
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Part 3: NGINX in Action

Exploring Module Configuration in NGINX

The true power of NGINX lies within its modules. The entire application is built on a modular system, and each module can be enabled or disabled at compile time. Some bring up simple functionalities, such as the autoindex module, which generates a listing of the files in a directory. Some will transform your perception of a web server (such as the Rewrite module). Apart from the NGINX modules that already exist, developers can also create their own modules to suit their needs.

A quick overview of the third-party module system can be found at the end of this chapter. Please note that third-party modules are maintained by the community, and there is no guarantee that these modules will be compatible with your version of NGINX.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • The Rewrite module, which does more than just rewrite URIs
  • Additional modules enabled in the default NGINX build
  • Optional modules that must be enabled at compile...
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