worker_processes and worker_connections Nginx Event Model On Linux, Nginx uses the efficient epoll event model. This involves a child worker process with a single thread responding to I/O events (network, [ … ]

What is it? The nginx map module allows you to map a set of values into a different set of values, storing the result in a variable. The nginx map [ … ]

Installation yum install epel-release yum install nginx chkconfig nginx on service nginx start Edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and change this to the number of physical CPU cores: worker_processes 1; Configuration Apache vs [ … ]

We create three `server` blocks: One to redirect http to https One to decide if requests should go to web1 or be served locally One to serve local wordpress nginx [ … ]

Overview Most users of nginx are going to configure it to run PHP scripts via . However there are some PHP-FPM who wish to run Perl (or another language) through [ … ]

WordPress WordPress is incredibly simple and you need to modify very little. These configurations assume you are behind some kind of load balancer and will set the IP properly. nginx.conf: [ … ]

Technical Details The first thing we need to do, is configure Nginx to determine what needs to differentiate our cached pages. In our example, we’re using device type since this [ … ]

If a customer is using a Cloud Load Balancer, they are restricted to only allowing/denying 100 IPs. However, they may want to block specific IPs still. Ideally, we would block [ … ]

Summary Apache has the ability to return its Hostname via the X-Served-By header. When troubleshooting nodes behind a Load Balancer, this can help localize a problematic node. This guide will [ … ]

Overview APC (alternative php cache) is a module that provides opcode caching for PHP pages. It comes installed by default on our LAMP kicks and can be a major performance [ … ]