NGINX Cookbook
Over 70 recipes for real-world configuration, deployment, and performance
Published on 8. July 2025
278 pages
978-1-78646-977-9 (ISBN)
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Digital original
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English
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Birmingham
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Digital original
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5,83 MB
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978-1-78646-977-9 (9781786469779)
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Butler Tim :
Tim Butler is currently working in the web hosting industry and has nearly 20 years of experience. He currently maintains hyper-converged storage/compute platforms and is an architect of high throughput web logging and monitoring solutions. You can follow him on Twitter using his Twitter handle, @timbutler, where he (infrequently) posts about hosting, virtualization, NGINX, containers, and a few other hobbies.
Tim Butler is currently working in the web hosting industry and has nearly 20 years of experience. He currently maintains hyper-converged storage/compute platforms and is an architect of high throughput web logging and monitoring solutions. You can follow him on Twitter using his Twitter handle, @timbutler, where he (infrequently) posts about hosting, virtualization, NGINX, containers, and a few other hobbies.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Let's Get Started
- Introduction
- A quick installation guide
- How to do it...
- Packages - RHEL/CentOS
- Packages - Debian/Ubuntu
- Compiling from scratch
- Debian/Ubuntu
- CentOS/RHEL
- Testing
- How to do it...
- There's more...
- Configuring NGINX
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Enabling modules
- How to do it...
- See also
- Deploying a basic site
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Basic monitoring
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Real-time statistics
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Chapter 2: Common PHP Scenarios
- Introduction
- Configuring NGINX for WordPress
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- WordPress multisite with NGINX
- How to do it...
- Subdomains
- See also
- Running Drupal using NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Using NGINX with MediaWiki
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- See also
- Using Magento with NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Configuring NGINX for Joomla
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- See also
- Chapter 3: Common Frameworks
- Introduction
- Setting up Django with NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works....
- See also
- Setting up NGINX with Express
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works....
- See also
- Running Ruby on Rails with NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Easy Flask with NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Laravel via NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Meteor applications with NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- High speed Beego with NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Chapter 4: All About SSLs
- Introduction
- Basic SSL certificates
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Enabling HTTP/2 on NGINX
- How to do it...
- See also
- Configuring HSTS in NGINX
- How to do it...
- There's more...
- Easy SSL certificates with Let's Encrypt
- How to do it...
- See also
- Making NGINX PCI DSS compliant
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- OCSP stapling with NGINX
- How to do it...
- See also
- Achieving full A+ Qualys rating
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Chapter 5: Logging
- Introduction
- Logging to syslog
- How to do it...
- Remote syslog
- See also
- Customizing web access logs
- How to do it...
- See also
- Virtual host log format
- How to do it...
- Application focused logging
- How to do it...
- Logging TLS mode and cipher information
- How to do it...
- Logging POST data
- How to do it...
- Conditional logging
- How to do it...
- Using the Elastic Stack
- How to do it...
- Elasticsearch
- Logstash
- Kibana
- See also
- Chapter 6: Rewrites
- Introduction
- Redirecting non-www to www-based sites
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Redirecting to a new domain
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Blocking malicious user agents
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Redirecting all calls to HTTPS to secure your site
- How to do it...
- There's more...
- See also
- Redirecting pages and directories
- How to do it...
- Single page redirect
- Full directory redirect
- How it works...
- See also
- Redirecting 404 errors through a search page
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Chapter 7: Reverse Proxy
- Introduction
- Configuring NGINX as a simple reverse proxy
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Content caching with NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Monitoring cache status
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Microcaching
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Serving from cache when your backend is down
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- SSL termination proxy
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- See also
- Rate limiting
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Chapter 8: Load Balancing
- Introduction
- Basic balancing techniques
- Round robin load balancing
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Least connected load balancing
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Hash-based load balancing
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Testing and debugging NGINX load balancing
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- There's more...
- See also
- TCP / application load balancing
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Easy testing
- There's more...
- See also
- NGINX as an SMTP load balancer
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Chapter 9: Advanced Features
- Introduction
- Authentication with NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- WebDAV with NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Bandwidth management with NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Connection limiting with NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Header modification with NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Caching static content
- Removing server name and version
- Extra debug headers
- See also
- Chapter 10: Docker Containers
- Introduction
- Installing Docker
- NGINX web server via Docker
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- NGINX reverse proxy via Docker
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Docker Compose with NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- NGINX load balancing with Docker
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Chapter 11: Performance Tuning
- Introduction
- Gzipping content in NGINX
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Enhancing NGINX with keep alive
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Tuning worker processes and connections
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Worker processes
- Worker connections
- There's more...
- See also
- Fine tuning basic Linux system limits
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- See also
- Integrating ngx_pagespeed
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Chapter 12: OpenResty
- Introduction
- Installing OpenResty
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- CentOS
- Ubuntu
- How it works...
- See also
- Getting started with OpenResty Lua
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Lua microservices with OpenResty
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Simple hit counter with a Redis backend
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Powering API Gateways with OpenResty
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Chapter 13: NGINX Plus - The Commercial Offering
- Introduction
- Installing NGINX Plus
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- CentOS
- Ubuntu
- See also
- Real-time server activity monitoring
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Dynamic config reloading
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Session persistence
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Cookie-based tracking
- Learn-based tracking
- Route-based tracking
- How it works...
- See also
- Index
