Tag: nginx

nginx rate limiting with a combination of IP and user agent

Here's a quick and dirty way to use IP-based rate limiting (very common) but override it for specific user agents (or basically, this is just a method of chaining geo {} and map…

nginx goes "Prime time"

Today, Igor announced that he is establishing a company behind nginx, citing that he and some others are going to be focusing more seriously on development, support, etc. This is…

nginx hits 1.0(.0)

nginx, my webserver du joir, announced its 1.0.0 launch today. Along with the announcement, Igor has also posted a public SVN repository to grab the code from (which seems to…

Setting PHP INI parameters from nginx

A little known feature in PHP-FPM 5.3.3+ (since it was integrated into PHP core) is that you can actually define PHP INI parameters inside of your nginx configuration. This…

Front Controller Patterns and nginx

It's no secret I'm a fan of nginx. Probably no secret that I'm a fan of front controller pattern design as well. Why? I find it to be the most universal and easy to support. I…

The magic that is... nginx

I've told this story countless times, but I've never publicly documented it. This happened over a year ago, but I feel obligated to share it. nginx is the main reason for the…

nginx and Go Daddy SSL certificates

Generate the CSR: Enter in whatever you want - you NEED the "Common Name" everything else is not really required for it to work. Paste the CSR into Go Daddy, get back the .crt…

PHP-FPM and nginx upstart scripts

Upstart is becoming the de-facto standard for everything in Ubuntu, and I do enjoy it's process management and re-spawning capabilities. (Actually, before PHP-FPM I used to use…

SPNEGO For nginx - a start, at least

I've been posting on the nginx mailing lists for a while that I've had a developer working on SPNEGO (Kerberos/GSSAPI/etc.) module for authentication for nginx. I never produced…

Transifex + Django + nginx on Ubuntu

You can probably also use this for just Django + nginx on Ubuntu too, it should work the same for any Django-based package, just change the Transifex-specific stuff (like…

Don't forget the $args!

August 2010 UPDATE: Read here for new information! I just realized when trying to use the tryfiles shortcut that either the behavior has changed or the code I've used it for has…

Finally using nginx's "try_files" directive

OLD: or: NEW: Why make life more complicated if you don't need to? Also thanks to Igor's patch you can have multiple of these, i.e.: etc. This is good, as Drupal, WordPress and…

nginx hits #4 on Netcraft

Self-explanatory. nginx surpasses Lighttpd and moves up to #4 according to Netcraft. Woohoo! http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/200812/

Who ever said open source software was perfect?

Typically, updates on the open source packages work without a hitch. However, my upgrade last weekend on my servers from Ubuntu Hardy to Intrepid wound up creating a couple major…

nginx + WordPress - redux

Note: this has been outdated once again. Now it can be simplified with one simple directive shown here. There's been a minor tweak required in my original WordPress+nginx rewrite…

WordPress+nginx rewrite rules - stop the insanity!

Note: this has been outdated now. I have an updated post with the latest and Igor-approved method here. When I was switching over to nginx, I found a handful of random and…

Open source projects currently taking my interest

For a long time I've been using Lighttpd as an alternative to Apache, Ubuntu, MySQL and PHP. It looks like I might be mixing it up soon, swapping out some and adding a couple…