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NGINX Cookbook

You're reading from NGINX Cookbook Over 70 recipes for real-world configuration, deployment, and performance

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786466174

Length 278 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

NGINX

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Tim Butler

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Let's Get Started FREE CHAPTER

2. Common PHP Scenarios

3. Common Frameworks

4. All About SSLs

5. Logging

6. Rewrites

7. Reverse Proxy

8. Load Balancing

9. Advanced Features

10. Docker Containers

11. Performance Tuning

12. OpenResty

13. NGINX Plus – The Commercial Offering

Using Magento with NGINX

With nearly 30 percent market share, Magento is the most popular e-commerce platform in the world. Due to a number of features and complexity, it's also a very resource-intensive system to use compared to a lightweight alternative. This means that NGINX is an ideal pairing to ensure you have the highest performance possible.

The latest major version of Magento is 2.0, which was nearly a complete rewrite compared to the previous versions. There's still quite a bit of complexity involved too, so make sure that you're ready to take on Magento if you've chosen it for your e-commerce platform:

Getting ready

This guide assumes you're familiar with the installation of Magento 2.0 and have a working instance. Although there shouldn't be too many major changes, this recipe has been tested with version 2.0.2.

How to do it...

Thankfully, Magento provides a fairly functional NGINX sample configuration (located in the root of the Magento source folder) to get started with. I've located...

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Authors (1)

Tim Butler

Tim Butler

Tim Butler is currently working in the web hosting industry and has nearly 20 years of experience. He currently maintains hyper-converged storage/compute platforms and is an architect of high throughput web logging and monitoring solutions. You can follow him on Twitter using his Twitter handle, @timbutler, where he (infrequently) posts about hosting, virtualization, NGINX, containers, and a few other hobbies.

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