Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Downloading and Installing Nginx -- Setting up the prerequisites -- GCC - GNU Compiler Collection -- The PCRE library -- The zlib library -- OpenSSL -- Downloading Nginx -- Websites and resources -- Version branches -- Features -- Downloading and extracting -- Configure options -- The easy way -- Path options -- Prerequisites options -- Module options -- Modules enabled by default -- Modules disabled by default -- Miscellaneous options -- Configuration examples -- About the prefix switch -- Regular HTTP and HTTPS servers -- All modules enabled -- Mail server proxy -- Build configuration issues -- Make sure you installed the prerequisites -- Directories exist and are writable -- Compiling and installing -- Controlling the Nginx service -- Daemons and services -- User and group -- Nginx command-line switches -- Starting and stopping the daemon -- Testing the configuration -- Other switches -- Adding Nginx as a system service -- System V scripts -- What is an init script? -- Init script for Debian-based distributions -- Init script for Red Hat-based distributions -- Installing the script -- Debian-based distributions -- Red Hat-based distributions -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Basic Nginx Configuration -- Configuration file syntax -- Configuration Directives -- Organization and inclusions -- Directive blocks -- Advanced language rules -- Directives accept specific syntaxes -- Diminutives in directive values -- Variables -- String values -- Base module directives -- What are base modules? -- Nginx process architecture -- Core module directives -- Events module -- Configuration module -- A configuration for your profile -- Understanding the default configuration -- Necessary adjustments -- Adapting to your hardware.

Testing your server -- Creating a test server -- Performance tests -- Httperf -- Autobench -- OpenWebLoad -- Upgrading Nginx gracefully -- Summary -- Chapter 3: HTTP Configuration -- HTTP Core module -- Structure blocks -- Module directives -- Socket and host configuration -- listen -- server_name -- server_name_in_redirect -- server_names_hash_max_size -- server_names_hash_bucket_size -- port_in_redirect -- tcp_nodelay -- tcp_nopush -- sendfile -- sendfile_max_chunk -- send_lowat -- reset_timedout_connection -- Paths and documents -- root -- alias -- error_page -- if_modified_since -- index -- recursive_error_pages -- try_files -- Client requests -- keepalive_requests -- keepalive_timeout -- keepalive_disable -- send_timeout -- client_body_in_file_only -- client_body_in_single_buffer -- client_body_buffer_size -- client_body_temp_path -- client_body_timeout -- client_header_buffer_size -- client_header_timeout -- client_max_body_size -- large_client_header_buffers -- lingering_time -- lingering_timeout -- lingering_close -- ignore_invalid_headers -- chunked_transfer_encoding -- max_ranges -- MIME types -- types -- default_type -- types_hash_max_size -- Limits and restrictions -- limit_except -- limit_rate -- limit_rate_after -- satisfy -- internal -- File processing and caching -- disable_symlinks -- directio -- directio_alignment -- open_file_cache -- open_file_cache_errors -- open_file_cache_min_uses -- open_file_cache_valid -- read_ahead -- Other directives -- log_not_found -- log_subrequest -- merge_slashes -- msie_padding -- msie_refresh -- resolver -- resolver_timeout -- server_tokens -- underscores_in_headers -- variables_hash_max_size -- variables_hash_bucket_size -- post_action -- Module variables -- Request headers -- Response headers -- Nginx generated -- The Location block -- Location modifier -- The = modifier -- No modifier.

The ~ modifier -- The ~* modifier -- The ^~ modifier -- The @ modifier -- Search order and priority -- Case 1: -- Case 2: -- Case 3: -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Module Configuration -- Rewrite module -- Reminder on regular expressions -- Purpose -- PCRE syntax -- Quantifiers -- Captures -- Internal requests -- error_page -- Rewrite -- Infinite loops -- Server Side Includes (SSI) -- Conditional structure -- Directives -- Common rewrite rules -- Performing a search -- User profile page -- Multiple parameters -- Wikipedia-like -- News website article -- Discussion board -- SSI module -- Module directives and variables -- SSI Commands -- File includes -- Working with variables -- Conditional structure -- Configuration -- Additional modules -- Website access and logging -- Index -- Autoindex -- Random index -- Log -- Limits and restrictions -- Auth_basic module -- Access -- Limit connections -- Limit request -- Content and encoding -- Empty GIF -- FLV and MP4 -- HTTP headers -- Addition -- Substitution -- Gzip filter -- Gzip static -- Charset filter -- Memcached -- Image filter -- XSLT -- About your visitors -- Browser -- Map -- Geo -- GeoIP -- UserID filter -- Referer -- Real IP -- Split Clients -- SSL and security -- SSL -- Setting up an SSL certificate -- Secure link -- Other miscellaneous modules -- Stub status -- Degradation -- Google-perftools -- WebDAV -- Third-party modules -- Summary -- Chapter 5: PHP and Python with Nginx -- Introduction to FastCGI -- Understanding the CGI mechanism -- Common Gateway Interface (CGI) -- Fast Common Gateway Interface (FastCGI) -- uWSGI and SCGI -- Main directives -- FastCGI caching -- Upstream blocks -- Module syntax -- Server directive -- PHP with Nginx -- Architecture -- PHP-FPM -- Setting up PHP and PHP-FPM -- Downloading and extracting -- Requirements -- Building PHP -- Post-install configuration.

Running and controlling -- Nginx configuration -- Python and Nginx -- Django -- Setting up Python and Django -- Python -- Django -- Starting the FastCGI process manager -- Nginx configuration -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Apache and Nginx Together -- Nginx as reverse proxy -- Understanding the issue -- The reverse proxy mechanism -- Advantages and disadvantages of the mechanism -- Nginx proxy module -- Main directives -- Caching, buffering, and temporary files -- Limits, timeouts, and errors -- Other directives -- Variables -- Configuring Apache and Nginx -- Reconfiguring Apache -- Configuration overview -- Resetting the port number -- Accepting local requests only -- Configuring Nginx -- Enabling proxy options -- Separating content -- Advanced configuration -- Improving the reverse proxy architecture -- Forwarding the correct IP address -- SSL issues and solutions -- Server control panel issues -- Summary -- Chapter 7: From Apache to Nginx -- Nginx versus Apache -- Features -- Core and functioning -- General functionality -- Flexibility and community -- Performance -- Usage -- Conclusion -- Porting your Apache configuration -- Directives -- Modules -- Virtual hosts and configuration sections -- Configuration sections -- Creating a virtual host -- .htaccess files -- Reminder on Apache .htaccess files -- Nginx equivalence -- Rewrite rules -- General remarks -- On the location -- On the syntax -- RewriteRule -- WordPress -- MediaWiki -- vBulletin -- Summary -- Appendix A: Directive Index -- Appendix B: Module Reference -- Access -- Addition* -- Auth_basic module -- Autoindex -- Browser -- Charset -- Core -- DAV* -- Degradation* -- Empty GIF -- Events -- FastCGI -- FLV* -- Geo -- Geo IP* -- Google-perftools* -- Gzip -- Gzip Static* -- Headers -- HTTP Core -- Image Filter* -- Index -- Limit Conn -- Limit Requests -- Log -- Map -- Memcached -- MP4* -- Proxy.

Random index* -- Real IP* -- Referer -- Rewrite -- SCGI -- Secure Link* -- Split Clients -- SSI -- SSL* -- Stub status* -- Substitution* -- Upstream -- User ID -- uWSGI -- XSLT* -- Appendix C: Troubleshooting -- General tips on troubleshooting -- Checking access permissions -- Testing your configuration -- Have you reloaded the service? -- Checking logs -- Install issues -- The 403 Forbidden custom error page -- 400 Bad Request -- Location block priorities -- If block issues -- Inefficient statements -- Unexpected behavior -- Index.