Nginx Module Extension -- Table of Contents -- Nginx Module Extension -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Installing Nginx Core and Modules from Source -- Installing binary distribution -- Red Hat, Fedora, and CentOS -- Official Debian/Ubuntu packages -- FreeBSD -- OpenBSD -- Official Win32 binaries -- Installing source distribution -- Nginx library dependencies -- Configuring options -- Files and permissions -- The Event loop -- Optional modules -- Compilation controls -- Example -- The Custom module -- Debugging -- Installing on other platforms -- Verifying your Nginx installation -- Summary -- 2. Configuring Core Modules -- Understanding the Main module -- Explaining directives -- daemon -- master_process -- timer_resolution -- pid -- lock_file -- worker_processes -- debug_points -- user -- worker_priority -- worker_cpu_affinity -- worker_rlimit_nofile -- worker_rlimit_core -- worker_rlimit_sigpending -- working_directory -- env -- Understanding the Events module -- Explaining directives -- accept_mutex -- accept_mutex_delay -- debug_connection -- devpoll_changes and devpoll_events -- kqueue_changes and kqueue_events -- epoll_events -- multi_accept -- rtsig_signo -- rtsig_overflow_events, rtsig_overflow_test, and rtsig_overflow_threshold -- use -- worker_connections -- Summary -- 3. Installing and Configuring HTTP Modules -- Standard HTTP modules -- The core module (HttpCoreModule) -- Explaining directives -- server -- server_name -- listen -- SSL -- default_server -- location -- server_names_hash_bucket_size.

server_names_hash_max_size -- tcp_nodelay/tcp_nopush -- sendfile -- sendfile_max_chunk -- root -- resolver/resolver_timeout -- aio -- alias -- error_page -- keepalive_disable, keepalive_timeout, and keepalive_requests -- Controlling access (HttpAccessModule) -- Authenticating users (HttpBasicAuthModule) -- Explaining directives -- auth_basic -- auth_basic_user_file -- Load balancing (HttpUpstreamModule) -- Explaining directives -- ip_hash -- server -- upstream -- Acting as a proxy (HttpProxyModule) -- Explaining directives -- proxy_pass -- proxy_pass_header -- proxy_connect_timeout -- proxy_next_upstream -- proxy_redirect -- proxy_set_header -- proxy_store -- proxy_cache -- Compressing content (HttpGzipModule) -- Explaining directives -- gzip -- gzip_buffers -- gzip_comp_level -- gzip_disable -- gzip_http_version -- gzip_min_length -- gzip_proxied -- gzip_types -- Controlling logging (HttpLogModule) -- Explaining directives -- access_log -- log_format -- Setting response headers (HttpHeadersModule) -- Explaining directives -- add_header -- expires -- Rewriting requests (HttpRewriteModule) -- Explaining directives -- break -- if -- return -- rewrite -- rewrite_log -- set -- uninitialized_variable_warn -- Interacting with FastCGI (HttpFastcgiModule) -- Simple caching (HttpMemcachedModule) -- Explaining directives -- memcached_pass -- memcached_connect_timeout -- memcached_read_timeout -- memcached_send_timeout -- memcached_buffer_size -- memcached_next_upstream -- Limiting requests (HttpLimitReqModule) -- Explaining directives -- limit_req -- limit_req_log_level -- limit_req_zone -- Limiting connections (HttpLimitConnModule) -- Explaining directives -- limit_conn -- limit_conn_zone -- limit_conn_log_level -- limit_conn_status -- Summary -- 4. Installing Third-party Modules -- Compiling third-party modules -- Communicating with PostgreSQL (ngx_postgres).

Explaining directives -- postgres_server -- postgres_keepalive -- postgres_pass -- postgres_query -- postgres_rewrite -- postgres_output -- postgres_set -- postgres_escape -- postgres_connect_timeout -- postgres_result_timeout -- Communicating with MySQL and drizzle (drizzle-nginx) -- Explaining directives -- drizzle_server -- drizzle_keepalive -- drizzle_query -- drizzle_pass -- drizzle_connect_timeout -- drizzle_send_query_timeout -- drizzle_recv_cols_timeout -- drizzle_recv_rows_timeout -- drizzle_buffer_size -- drizzle_module_header -- Digest Authentication (ngx_http_auth_digest) -- Explaining directives -- auth_digest -- auth_digest_user_file -- auth_digest_timeout -- auth_digest_expires -- auth_digest_replays -- auth_digest_shm_size -- Speeding up web pages (ngx_pagespeed) -- Configuring handlers -- Lua scripting (ngx_lua) -- Explaining directives -- lua_package_path -- set_by_lua or set_by_lua_file -- content_by_lua or content_by_lua_file -- rewrite_by_lua or rewrite_by_lua_file -- access_by_lua or access_by_lua_file -- Reverse IP lookup using the GeoIP module (ngx_http_geoip_module) -- Explaining directives -- geoip_country -- geoip_city -- geoip_org -- geoip_proxy -- geoip_proxy_recursive -- Doing healthchecks -- ngx_http_healthcheck_module -- Explaining directives -- healthcheck_enabled -- healthcheck_delay -- healthcheck_timeout -- healthcheck_failcount -- healthcheck_send -- healthcheck_expected -- healthcheck_buffer -- Load balancing -- Consistent hashing -- Least busy -- Configuration variable hashing -- Summary -- 5. Creating Your Own Module -- Nginx module delegation -- Handlers -- Load balancers -- Filters -- Order of execution -- The extended "Hello world" module -- Writing and compiling a module -- The "Hello world" source code -- Components of the Nginx module -- Module configuration structures -- Module directives.

The module context -- create_loc_conf -- merge_loc_conf -- The module definition -- The handler function -- Nginx Development Toolkit (NDK) -- Summary -- Index.