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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)

Authentication with NGINX

While many CMSes and advanced web applications have their own authentication systems, we can use NGINX to provide a second layer. This can be used to provide multifactor authentication and also to limit brute force attempts.

Alternatively, if you have a very basic application or a system, such as Elasticsearch, without any authentication, NGINX is a natural fit to provide for this role.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that you have an existing web application. This could be as simple as static pages or a full CMS such as WordPress.

We'll also need to install Apache utilities (not the full web server), which is generally packaged as apache2-utils on Debian/Ubuntu-based systems and httpd-tools...