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Nginx Troubleshooting

By : Alexey Kapranov
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Nginx Troubleshooting

By: Alexey Kapranov

Overview of this book

Nginx is clearly winning the race to be the dominant software to power modern websites. It is fast and open source, maintained with passion by a brilliant team. This book will help you maintain your Nginx instances in a healthy and predictable state. It will lead you through all the types of problems you might encounter as a web administrator, with a special focus on performance and migration from older software. You will learn how to write good configuration files and will get good insights into Nginx logs. It will provide you solutions to problems such as missing or broken functionality and also show you how to tackle performance issues with the Nginx server. A special chapter is devoted to the art of prevention, that is, monitoring and alerting services you may use to detect problems before they manifest themselves on a big scale. The books ends with a reference to error and warning messages Nginx could emit to help you during incident investigations.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Nginx Troubleshooting
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Rare Nginx Error Messages
Index

Showing a file upload progress bar


Uploading files from the web browser to the server is a rather common feature of modern web applications. Any number of CMS or publishing systems allows users to upload images to include these with their textual content, as shown in the following image:

Here is an example of a web upload in progress. The basic idea behind one of the algorithms to implement the progress bar is to initiate a POST request in an IFrame and then poll some well-known URL for the progress counter. Modern browsers allow us to get the progress information right on the client's side; this is a part of XMLHttpRequest Level 2 and was standardized about 3 years ago. There are a lot of older web applications that still rely on the older methods.

The described method only works if your client-side posts to your server-side with the same speed that the user actually sees in their interface. The problem is Nginx that buffers the long POST and then quickly and efficiently pushes it to the...