Nginx Essentials

Key Features

Book Description

What you will learn

• Get started with an Nginx installation from scratch in various environments and customize it for your purposes
• Start and stop a basic Nginx installation, discover the basics of process management, and learn how to set up Nginx to serve static data
• Create highlymaintainable configuration files to perform the most critical Nginx maintenance tasks
• Set up Nginx as a reverse proxy and learn to use the Nginx caching feature
• Discover how to benefit from the Nginx rewrite engine and how to use access restrictions in Nginx
• Use various Nginx features to manage inbound traffic and understand how to use Nginx load balancing and fault tolerance features
• Understand advanced featureindependent performance tuning strategies and optimizations
• Manage inbound and outbound traffic and configure access control

Who this book is for

This book is ideal for skilled web masters and site reliability engineers who want to switch to Nginx or solidify their knowledge of Nginx. Knowledge of Unix and webmaster skills are required.