Mastering NGINX Second Edition

Aivaliotis, Dimitri

ISBN 10: 1782173315 / ISBN 13: 9781782173311

Editore: Packt Publishing, 2016

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Titolo: Mastering NGINX Second Edition

Casa editrice: Packt Publishing

Data di pubblicazione: 2016

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Like New

Edizione: seconda edizione

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An in-depth guide to configuring NGINX for your everyday server needs About This Book * Get tips, tricks, and master insight to help you configure NGINX for any server situation * Integrate NGINX into your applications architecture with is, using hands-on guidance and practical code samples that are free to use * Troubleshoot configuration problems before and as they arise, for a seamless NGINX server experience Who This Book Is For This book is for system administrators and engineers who want to personalize NGINX, and design a robust configuration module to solve their hosting problems. Some knowledge of NGINX is a plus, but is not a prerequisite. What You Will Learn * Compile the right third-party module to meet your needs * Write an authentication server to use with the mail proxy module * Create your own SSL certificates to encrypt connections * Use try_files to solve your file-existence check problems * Cache and compress responses to get speedier user interaction * Integrate popular PHP frameworks with the FastCGI module * Construct useful logging configurations In Detail NGINX is a high-performance HTTP server and mail proxy designed to use very few system resources. But despite its power it is often a challenge to properly configure NGINX to meet your expectations. Mastering Nginx is the solution - an insider's guide that will clarify the murky waters of NGINX's configuration. Tune NGINX for various situations, improve your NGINX experience with some of the more obscure configuration directives, and discover how to design and personalize a configuration to match your needs. To begin with, quickly brush up on installing and setting up the NGINX server on the OS and its integration with third-party modules. From here, move on to explain NGINX's mail proxy module and its authentication, and reverse proxy to solve scaling issues. Then see how to integrate NGINX with your applications to perform tasks. The latter part of the book focuses on working through techniques to solve common web issues and the know-hows using NGINX modules. Finally, we will also explore different configurations that will help you troubleshoot NGINX server and assist with performance tuning. Style and approach This is a mastering guide where you will follow an instructional, conversational approach working through problems and their solutions.

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Dimitri Aivaliotis

Dimitri Aivaliotis is a production engineer in Silicon Valley. His career has taken him from building a Linuxbased computer network for a school up through multidatacenter, highavailability infrastructures for banks and popular websites. He has spent over a decade solving his customers' problems and learned NGINX along the way. Dimitri graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and received an MS in Management Information Systems at Florida State University.