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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)

Monitoring cache status

When developing complex sites or rapidly changing content, one key aspect is to monitor where the content was served from. Essentially, we need to know whether we hit the cache or whether it was a miss.

This helps us ensure that, if there are issues, or on seeing incorrect content, we know where to look. It can also be used to ensure the caching is working on pages where it's expected and being bypassed for areas where it shouldn't be.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

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