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Mastering Nginx

By : Dimitri Aivaliotis
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Mastering Nginx

By: Dimitri Aivaliotis

Overview of this book

<p>NGINX is a high-performance HTTP server and mail proxy designed to use very few system resources. With the many tutorials and example configurations floating around the Web, it is difficult to know how to properly configure NGINX to meet your expectations.<br /><br />"Mastering Nginx" will serve to clarify the murky waters of NGINX configuration, helping you learn how to tune NGINX for various situations, what some of the more obscure configuration directives do, and how to design a decent configuration to match your needs.<br /><br />Beginning with an overview of compiling NGINX and describing its basic configuration file format, this guide next takes you on a tour of NGINX's modules.</p> <p>From the unique mail module to the upstream module, this book explores the various possibilities of using NGINX as a reverse proxy. The multiple HTTP modules are explained, and the book rounds off the tour with a discussion of troubleshooting.</p> <p>"Mastering Nginx" will explain all aspects of configuring NGINX to help solve your hosting problems.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering NGINX
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Persisting Solaris Network Tunings
Index

Web resources


The wiki at http://wiki.nginx.org has been a useful resource for a number of years. Here you will find a complete directive reference, a module listing, and a number of configuration examples. Keep in mind though, that this is a wiki, and the information found on it is not guaranteed to be accurate, up-to-date, or to fit your needs exactly. As we have seen throughout this book, it is always important to think about what you want to accomplish before setting out to derive the solution.

NGINX, Inc. maintains the official reference documentation located at http://nginx.org/en/docs/. There are some documents introducing NGINX, as well as How-to's and pages describing each module and directive.