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Mastering NGINX

Personalize, customize and configure NGINX to meet the needs of your server

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jul 2025
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Description

Personalize, customize and configure NGINX to meet the needs of your server

Key Features

  • Get tips, tricks, and master insight to help you configure NGINX for any server situation
  • Integrate NGINX into your applications architecture with is, using hands-on guidance and practical code samples that are free to use
  • Troubleshoot configuration problems before and as they arise, for a seamless NGINX server experience

Book Description

NGINX is a high-performance HTTP server and mail proxy designed to use very few system resources. But despite its power it is often a challenge to properly configure NGINX to meet your expectations. Mastering Nginx is the solution – an insider’s guide that will clarify the murky waters of NGINX’s configuration. Tune NGINX for various situations, improve your NGINX experience with some of the more obscure configuration directives, and discover how to design and personalize a configuration to match your needs.
To begin with, quickly brush up on installing and setting up the NGINX server on the OS and its integration with third-party modules. From here, move on to explain NGINX's mail proxy module and its authentication, and reverse proxy to solve scaling issues. Then see how to integrate NGINX with your applications to perform tasks.
The latter part of the book focuses on working through techniques to solve common web issues and the know-hows using NGINX modules. Finally, we will also explore different configurations that will help you troubleshoot NGINX server and assist with performance tuning.

What you will learn

  • Compile the right third-party module to meet your needs
  • Write an authentication server to use with the mail proxy module
  • Create your own SSL certificates to encrypt connections
  • Use try_files to solve your file-existence check problems
  • Cache and compress responses to get speedier user interaction
  • Integrate popular PHP frameworks with the FastCGI module
  • Construct useful logging configurations

Who this book is for

This book is for system administrators and engineers who want to personalize NGINX, and design a robust configuration module to solve their hosting problems. Some knowledge of NGINX is a plus, but is not a prerequisite.

Table of Contents

  1. Installing NGINX and 3rd-Party Modules
  2. A Configuration Guide
  3. Using the Mail Module
  4. NGINX as a Reverse Proxy
  5. Reverse Proxy Advanced Topics
  6. The NGINX HTTP Server
  7. NGINX for the Application Developer
  8. Integrating Lua with NGINX
  9. Troubleshooting Techniques
  10. Directive Reference
  11. Rewrite Rule Guide
  12. Community
  13. Persisting Solaris Network Tunings
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-376-5
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 320
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Computer sciences, other
BISAC subjects:
COM060080,
COM060180,
COM088000
Thema subjects:
UBW,
UMWS,
UTE

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