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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)

Serving from cache when your backend is down

While we don't want to see a scenario where your backend server is down, expecting to maintain 100 percent uptime simply isn't realistic. Whether it's unexpected or planned upgrades, having the ability to still serve content is a great feature.

With NGINX, we can tell it to serve stale cache data when it can't reach your backend server. Having a page which is slightly out-of-date is (in most scenarios) a far better outcome than sending the client a 502 HTTP error (Bad Gateway).

Getting ready

As the caching is part of the standard NGINX platform, no additional prerequisites are required.

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