nginx

General posts that involve nginx, these will include howtos, configuration information and experiments

Using nginx, Varnish and Apache

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February 6, 2010
by Kura in , , ,
The problem

So lets get to the problem first. I have several lightly to medium loaded sites running on some virtual servers, they servers themselves are highly configured to run beautifully on our host environments, very, very RAM intensive but low disk I/O and low CPU usage.

As mentioned, the sites are relatively low loaded, they'll generally hang around at between 3,000-5,000 unique hits a day and are run through Apache using PHP, various PHP modules and MySQL, a simple generic LAMP environment, yet customised to suit it's surroundings and host.

The sites themselves run fine on that setup, More >

Apache 2, Nginx & WordPress MU – Follow up

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January 12, 2010
by Kura in , ,

This is a quick follow up to a previous post about getting this blog running on nginx with a reverse proxy to Apache 2.

It seems the issue stems from 3 mods I had installed and enabled

  1. mod-spamhaus
  2. mod-evasive and
  3. mod-security

The 3, when running together are a fantastic way to strengthen any web server from attack, be it DOS, injection, XLS etc. I've sworn by all 3 of them for years now and I thought I had them cracked for security:performance ratio, when it comes to reverse proxying requests from nginx to Apache 2 where WordPress is concerned, apparently I was very wrong.

The issue wasn't More >

Debian, Apache 2, Nginx, WordPress MU & WP-Super-Cache

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January 11, 2010
by Kura in , ,

This is a rather old article, for more up-to-date information please see;

  1. http://syslog.tv/2010/02/07/nginx-proxy_cache-and-explained-benchmarked/
  2. http://syslog.tv/2010/02/14/more-nginx-proxy_cache-optimizations-and-nginx-load-balancing/

I've started collecting a few blogs on my servers now and figured from this one on I would consolidate it in to one workable, usable location. Removing my need to update multiple plugins, themes and WordPress itself, over and over.

This time round I thought I'd do it properly, and properly in my book is as complicated and "awesome" as it can possibly be, More >

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