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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)

Introduction

Once you have your NGINX configuration working, you can turn your focus to fine tuning to enhance performance. A few sections of this chapter will focus on delivering increased performance for users, while others will focus on delivering performance enhancements at a server level to allow greater concurrency.

As with any tuning, you need to ensure that you understand the limits first.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
– Donald Knuth, 1974

In the context of NGINX, you need to ensure that you know what the limits are before changing them. Not all changes will necessarily result in performance increases if they don't suit your system or if they're not a current limitation.

On the flip side, optimization of your NGINX server is also critical to ensure that your website or application...