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Nginx Essentials
About this book
This book is ideal for skilled web masters and site reliability engineers who want to switch to Nginx or solidify their knowledge of Nginx. Knowledge of Unix and webmaster skills are required.
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Nginx Essentials
Table of Contents
Nginx Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
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Questions
1. Getting Started with Nginx
Installing Nginx
Installing Nginx on Ubuntu
Alternatives
Installing Nginx on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS/Scientific Linux
Installing Nginx from source files
Downloading the Nginx source files
Troubleshooting
Building Nginx
Troubleshooting
Copying the source code configuration from prebuilt packages
The structure of the Nginx installation
The Nginx configuration folder
The default virtual host folder
The virtual hosts configuration folder
The log folder
The temporary folder
Configuring Nginx
Value types
Variables
Inclusions
Sections
The http section
The server section
The upstream section
The location section
Simple
Exact
Regular expression locations
The if section
The limit_except section
Other section types
Configuration settings' inheritance rules
The First sample configuration
Configuration best practices
Summary
2. Managing Nginx
The Nginx connection processing architecture
Starting and stopping Nginx
Control signals and their usage
Fast shutdown
Graceful shutdown
Reconfiguration
Reopening the log file
Nginx binary upgrade
Graceful worker shutdown
Finalizing the upgrade procedure
Handling difficult cases
Distribution-specific startup scripts
Allocating worker processes
Setting up Nginx to serve static data
Installing SSL certificates
Creating a Certificate Signing Request
Installing an issued SSL certificate
Permanently redirecting from a nonsecure virtual host
Managing temporary files
Communicating issues to developers
Creating a binary with debugging information
Summary
3. Proxying and Caching
Nginx as a reverse proxy
Setting up Nginx as a reverse proxy
Setting the backend the right way
Adding transparency
Handling redirects
Handling cookies
Using SSL
Handling errors
Choosing an outbound IP address
Accelerating downloads
Caching
Configuring caches
Enabling caching
Choosing a cache key
Improving cache efficiency and availability
Handling exceptions and borderline cases
Summary
4. Rewrite Engine and Access Control
The basics of the rewrite engine
More about rewrite rules
Patterns
Captures and positional parameters
Other functionalities of the rewrite engine
Assigning variables
Evaluating predicates using if sections
Replying with a specified HTTP status code
Access control
Restricting access by IP address
Using the geo directive to restrict access by IP address
Using basic authentication for access restriction
Authenticating users with a subrequest
Combining multiple access restriction methods
Summary
5. Managing Inbound and Outbound Traffic
Managing inbound traffic
Limiting the request rate
Limiting the number of simultaneous connections
Limiting the transfer rate of a connection
Applying multiple limitations
Managing outbound traffic
Declaring upstream servers
Using upstream servers
Choosing a request distribution strategy
Configuring backup servers
Determining whether a server is available
Enabling persistent connections
Limiting the transfer rate of an upstream connection
Summary
6. Performance Tuning
Optimizing static file retrieval
Enabling response compression
Optimizing buffer allocation
Enabling SSL session reuse
Worker processes allocation on multi-core systems
Summary
Index
Nginx Essentials
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Credits
Author
Valery Kholodkov
Reviewers
Markus Jelsma
Jesse Estill Lawson
Daniel Parraz
Commissioning Editor
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Acquisition Editor
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Content Development Editor
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Technical Editor
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