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Nginx 1 Web Server Implementation Cookbook

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By Dipankar Sarkar
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  1. The Core HTTP Module
    • The Core HTTP Module
    • Introduction
    • Installing new modules and compiling Nginx
    • Running Nginx in debug mode
    • Easy reloading of Nginx using the CLI
    • Splitting configuration files for better management
    • Setting up multiple virtual hosts
    • Setting up a default catch-all virtual host
    • Using wildcards in virtual hosts
    • Setting up the number of worker processes correctly
    • Increasing the size of uploaded files
    • Using dynamic SSI for simple sites
    • Adding content before and after a particular page
    • Enabling auto indexing of a directory
    • Serving any random web page from a directory
    • Serving cookies for identifying and logging users
    • Re-encoding the response to another encoding
    • Enabling Gzip compression on some content types
    • Setting up 404 and other error pages
    • All About Rewrites: The Rewrite Module
    • Introduction
    • Setting up a simple redirect
    • Using variables in your rewrite
    • Using cookies for your rewrites
    • Using browser agents for your rewrites
    • Using rate limits as a condition for rewrites
    • Blocking requests based on HTTP referrers
    • Serving maintenance page when deploying
    • Setting up a WordPress site with static file serving
    • Setting up a Drupal site with static file serving
    • Setting up a Magento site with static file serving
    • Converting your Apache's .htaccess into Nginx rewrites
    • Using maps to make configurations cleaner
    • Get It All Logged: The Logging Module
    • Introduction
    • Setting up error log path and levels
    • Logging it like Apache
    • Disabling logging of 404 in error logs
    • Using different logging profiles in the same setup
    • Enabling a log file cache
    • Utilizing separate error logs per virtual host
    • Setting up log rotation
    • Enabling remote logging with syslog-ng
    • Setting up your custom logs for easy parsing
    • Slow Them Down: Access and Rate Limiting Module
    • Introduction
    • Limiting requests for any given session
    • Blocking and allowing access using IP
    • Setting up simple rate limiting for a download directory
    • Rate limiting search engine bots
    • Setting up GeoIP using the MaxMind country database
    • Using the GeoIP module to set up access and rate control
    • Let's be Secure: Security Modules
    • Introduction
    • Setting up HTTP auth for access control
    • Generating a secure link for files
    • Setting up HTTPS for a simple site
    • Using non standard error codes for debugging SSL setup
    • Using wildcard certificates with multiple servers
    • Using Nginx SSL variables for rewrite rules
    • Setting Up Applications: FCGI and WSGI Modules
    • Introduction
    • Setting up a PHP FCGI site
    • Setting up a Python site using uWSGI
    • Modifying FCGI timeouts
    • Utilizing FCGI cache to speed it up
    • Using multiple FCGI backends
    • Nginx as a Reverse Proxy
    • Introduction
    • Using Nginx as a simple reverse proxy
    • Setting up a rails site using Nginx as a reverse proxy
    • Setting up correct reverse proxy timeouts
    • Setting up caching on the reverse proxy
    • Using multiple backends for the reverse proxy
    • Serving CGI files using thttpd and Nginx
    • Setting up load balancing with reverse proxy
    • Splitting requests based on various conditions using split-clients
    • Improving Performance and SEO Using Nginx
    • Introduction
    • Setting up TCP options correctly for optimizing performance
    • Reducing the keep-alives to free up Nginx workers
    • Using Memcached as the cache backend
    • Configuring the right event model and file limits
    • Setting max-age expiry headers for client-side caching
    • Blocking scrapers, bots, and spiders to save bandwidth
    • Redirection of www to non-www domain for SEO
    • Removing all white space from response
    • Setting up server status for monitoring
    • Setting up Munin for 24x7 Nginx monitoring
    • Enabling GZIP pre-compression
    • Preventing hotlinking using Nginx
    • Using embedded Perl to minify JavaScript files
    • Using embedded Perl to minify CSS files
    • Using embedded Perl to serve sitemaps (SEO)
    • Setting up Boost module on Drupal with Nginx
    • Setting up streaming for Flash files
    • Utilizing the 1x1 GIF serving module to do offline processing
    • Using Other Third-party Modules
    • Introduction
    • Setting up an IMAP/POP3 proxy server
    • Setting up authentication for mail services
    • Setting up SSL for mail authentication
    • Using Nginx as a WEBDAV reverse proxy
    • Dynamic image resizing using Nginx
    • Replacing and searching text in Nginx response
    • Assembling ZIP files on the fly
    • Using Nginx as a HTTP publish-subscribe server
    • Transforming XML responses using XSLT templates
    • Setting up Etags for static content
    • Easy logging of page load times
    • Streaming of MP4/H.264 files
    • Setting up SCGI sites
    • Setting up expiring links
    • Some More Third-party Modules
    • Introduction
    • Configuring a fair load balancing
    • Setting up health checks for backend servers
    • Tracking and reporting file upload progress
    • Generating circles for round edges using Nginx
    • Running Python using Phusion Passenger
    • Generating graphs directly from RRDtool in Nginx
    • Using Google performance tools
    • Serving content directly from GridFS
    • Configuring Basic HTTP auth using PAM
    • Configuring Basic HTTP auth using Kerberos
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