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NGINX HTTP Server

You're reading from   NGINX HTTP Server Harness the power of NGINX with a series of detailed tutorials and real-life examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835469873
Length 262 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald
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Gabriel Ouiran Gabriel Ouiran
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Begin with NGINX FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Downloading and Installing NGINX 3. Chapter 2: Basic NGINX Configuration 4. Part 2: Dive into NGINX
5. Chapter 3: Exploring the HTTP Configuration 6. Chapter 4: Exploring Module Configuration in NGINX 7. Chapter 5: PHP and Python with NGINX 8. Chapter 6: NGINX as a Reverse Proxy 9. Part 3: NGINX in Action
10. Chapter 7: Introduction to Load Balancing and Optimization 11. Chapter 8: NGINX within a Cloud Infrastructure 12. Chapter 9: Fully Deploy, Manage, and Auto-Update NGINX with Ansible 13. Chapter 10: Case Studies 14. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Python and NGINX

Python is a popular object-oriented programming (OOP) language available on many platforms, from Unix-based systems to Windows. It is also available for Java and the Microsoft .NET platform. If you are interested in configuring Python to work with NGINX, it’s likely that you already have a clear idea of what Python does. We are going to use Python as a server-side web programming language, with the help of the Django framework.

Django

Django is an open source web development framework for Python that aims at making web development simple and easy, as its slogan states:

The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

More information is available on the project website at https://www.djangoproject.com/.

Among other interesting features, such as a dynamic administrative interface, a caching framework, and unit tests, Django comes with a FastCGI manager. Although the usual way to deploy Django is through WSGI, we’re going to use Django...

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