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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)

Installing OpenResty

OpenResty is packaged for the easy installation of most Linux distributions, but there are binary packages for both Windows and OS X available as well. As most production deployments will predominantly be Linux-based, we'll concentrate on Linux for our recipe.

Getting ready

If you have NGINX already installed, you'll need to uninstall it first to remove any other conflicts.

How to do it...

Official repositories exist for most major Linux installations, but we'll focus on just CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to cover the two most common...