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Nginx HTTP Server

You're reading from Nginx HTTP Server Harness the power of Nginx to make the most of your infrastructure and serve pages faster than ever before

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788623551

Length 348 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

HTTP

Concepts

Servers

Authors (2):

Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald

Mr. Clement Nedelcu

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Downloading and Installing Nginx

2. Basic Nginx Configuration FREE CHAPTER

3. HTTP Configuration

4. Module Configuration

5. PHP and Python with Nginx

6. Nginx as an Application Server

7. Apache and Nginx Together

8. From Apache to Nginx

9. Introduction to Load Balancing and Optimization

10. Case Studies

11. Troubleshooting

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Deploying a WordPress site

As stated in Chapter 8, From Apache to Nginx, WordPress is currently the most popular content management system on the entire web. According to a recent survey from BuiltWith.com trends (https://trends.builtwith.com/), its market share totals 53%, leaving its competitors far behind: Joomla only captures 9% of the market, followed by Drupal with just a little over 2%. For a lot of web server administrators, setting up WordPress sites or blogs has become a common task, whether it is for personal or professional use.

Preparing your server and obtaining WordPress

In this section, we will be getting your server ready for downloading and installing the WordPress application. There will be a few configuration files to go through to make sure WordPress runs smoothly.

System requirements

The first step you need to go through to set up a WordPress site on a fresh new server is to make sure you have the necessary components installed and up to date: it is recommended that you...

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Authors (2)

Fjordvald

Fjordvald

Martin Fjordvald is a 35-year-old Danish entrepreneur who started his company straight out of high school. Backed by a popular website, he became a jack of all trades having to deal with the business, programming, and marketing side of his business. The popularity of his website grew and so did the performance requirements of his code and servers. He got involved with the community project to document Nginx early on and has written several blog posts and wiki articles detailing how Nginx works.

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Nedelcu

Nedelcu

Clement Nedelcu was born in France and studied at UK, French, and Chinese universities. After teaching computer science, programming, and systems administration at several eastern Chinese universities, he worked as a technology consultant in France, specialized in the web and .NET software development as well as Linux server administration. Since 2005, he has also been administering a major network of websites in his spare time, which allowed him to discover Nginx. Clement now works as CTO. for a Singapore-based company developing management software for schools.

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