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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

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Preface

1. Let's Get Started FREE CHAPTER

Introduction
A quick installation guide
Configuring NGINX
Enabling modules
Deploying a basic site
Basic monitoring
Real-time statistics

2. Common PHP Scenarios

Introduction
Configuring NGINX for WordPress
WordPress multisite with NGINX
Running Drupal using NGINX
Using NGINX with MediaWiki
Using Magento with NGINX
Configuring NGINX for Joomla

3. Common Frameworks

Introduction
Setting up Django with NGINX
Setting up NGINX with Express
Running Ruby on Rails with NGINX
Easy Flask with NGINX
Laravel via NGINX
Meteor applications with NGINX
High speed Beego with NGINX

4. All About SSLs

Introduction
Basic SSL certificates
Enabling HTTP/2 on NGINX
Configuring HSTS in NGINX
Easy SSL certificates with Let's Encrypt
Making NGINX PCI DSS compliant
OCSP stapling with NGINX
Achieving full A+ Qualys rating

5. Logging

Introduction
Logging to syslog
Customizing web access logs
Virtual host log format
Application focused logging
Logging TLS mode and cipher information
Logging POST data
Conditional logging
Using the Elastic Stack

6. Rewrites

Introduction
Redirecting non-www to www-based sites
Redirecting to a new domain
Blocking malicious user agents
Redirecting all calls to HTTPS to secure your site
Redirecting pages and directories
Redirecting 404 errors through a search page

7. Reverse Proxy

Introduction
Configuring NGINX as a simple reverse proxy
Content caching with NGINX
Monitoring cache status
Microcaching
Serving from cache when your backend is down
SSL termination proxy
Rate limiting

8. Load Balancing

Introduction
Round robin load balancing
Least connected load balancing
Hash-based load balancing
Testing and debugging NGINX load balancing
TCP / application load balancing
NGINX as an SMTP load balancer

9. Advanced Features

Introduction
Authentication with NGINX
WebDAV with NGINX
Bandwidth management with NGINX
Connection limiting with NGINX
Header modification with NGINX

10. Docker Containers

Introduction
NGINX web server via Docker
NGINX reverse proxy via Docker
Docker Compose with NGINX
NGINX load balancing with Docker

11. Performance Tuning

Introduction
Gzipping content in NGINX
Enhancing NGINX with keep alive
Tuning worker processes and connections
Fine tuning basic Linux system limits
Integrating ngx_pagespeed

12. OpenResty

Introduction
Installing OpenResty
Getting started with OpenResty Lua
Lua microservices with OpenResty
Simple hit counter with a Redis backend
Powering API Gateways with OpenResty

13. NGINX Plus – The Commercial Offering

Introduction
Installing NGINX Plus
Real-time server activity monitoring
Dynamic config reloading
Session persistence

Chapter 11. Performance Tuning

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Gzipping content in NGINX
Enhancing NGINX with keep alive
Tuning worker processes and connections
Fine tuning basic Linux system limits
Integrating ngx_pagespeed

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