Butler - NGINX cookbook: make the most of your web server

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First published: August 2017

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ISBN 978-1-78646-617-4

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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.

Claudio Borges is a systems engineer with a computer science degree and over 15 years of experience in Linux/BSD. He has strong knowledge of systems administration and deployment with extensive experience in developing tools to automate systems and tasks.

Jesse Lawson is a PhD student at Northcentral University and an information systems administrator at Butte College in Oroville, CA. His research addresses two primary areas: consumer psychology in higher education administration, and data science and analytics in the social sciences. His dissertation explores how machine learning models compare to human-generated processes of predicting college student outcomes, and what it means if people are better at predicting student dropout behavior than algorithms. He is the author of the bestselling book Data Science in Higher Education, published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; he is a technical reviewer for Packt Publishing; and a former technical reviewer for the International Journal of Computer Science and Innovation.

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NGINX Cookbook covers the basics of configuring NGINX as a web server for use with common web frameworks such as WordPress and Ruby on Rails, through to utilization as a reverse proxy. Designed as a go-to reference guide, this book will give you practical answers based on real-world deployments to get you up and running quickly.

Recipes have also been provided for multiple SSL configurations, different logging scenarios, practical rewrites, and multiple load balancing scenarios. Advanced topics include covering bandwidth management, Docker container usage, performance tuning, OpenResty, and the NGINX Plus commercial features.

By the time you've read this book, you will be able to adapt and use a wide variety of NGINX implementations to solve any problems you have.

, Let's Get Started, goes through some of the basics of NGINX as a refresher. It's aimed as an entry point so that there's no assumed knowledge when we move onto some of the more complex structures.

, Common PHP Scenarios, covers examples of the more common PHP scenarios and how to implement them with NGINX. The readers will learn how to configure NGINX and how to deploy a basic site.

, Common Frameworks, covers non-PHP-based frameworks. It will help the readers to understand and implement all of the common non-PHP-based platforms via NGINX.