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Nginx Troubleshooting

By : Alexey Kapranov
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Nginx Troubleshooting

By: Alexey Kapranov

Overview of this book

Nginx is clearly winning the race to be the dominant software to power modern websites. It is fast and open source, maintained with passion by a brilliant team. This book will help you maintain your Nginx instances in a healthy and predictable state. It will lead you through all the types of problems you might encounter as a web administrator, with a special focus on performance and migration from older software. You will learn how to write good configuration files and will get good insights into Nginx logs. It will provide you solutions to problems such as missing or broken functionality and also show you how to tackle performance issues with the Nginx server. A special chapter is devoted to the art of prevention, that is, monitoring and alerting services you may use to detect problems before they manifest themselves on a big scale. The books ends with a reference to error and warning messages Nginx could emit to help you during incident investigations.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Nginx Troubleshooting
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Rare Nginx Error Messages
Index

Security warnings


It is a fact that the web is moving to HTTPS. Even 3 – 4 years ago, plain text HTTP was a perfectly normal choice unless you build a bank interface. Today, in the age of global personalization and sophisticated attackers, websites are slowly embracing total encryption. There are a number of reasons for that, and deep discussion is out of the scope of this book. Instead, you are kindly referred to this document https://www.eff.org/encrypt-the-web-report. Basically, in the next 2-3 years, HTTP will become de facto deprecated as an end user protocol and that brings us to a world of problems dealing with the public key infrastructure of HTTPS. HTTPS relies on TLS, which uses X.509 PKI with CAs, CRLs, OSCP, and so on. The abundance of abbreviations in the previous sentence is deliberate; this is a complex topic in itself, which regularly confuses the most experienced specialists. The design of the X.509 key and certificate infrastructure is known to be very complex, but the...