Nginx Essentials: Excel in Nginx quickly by learning to use its most essential features in real-life applications

by Valery Kholodkov

Excel in Nginx quickly by learning to use its most essential features in real-life applications 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. Nginx is an open source and cross-platform reverse proxy server designed for low memory usage and high performance and concurrency. This book provides both basic and in-depth knowledge to help you effectively solve challenges with Nginx, or comfortably go through a transition period when switching to Nginx. Starting with the basics, you will learn by example how to set up, configure, and operate an Nginx installation and use features of Nginx to elegantly solve challenges you experience every day when running your website. You will learn to use the rewrite engine to solve day-to-day tasks and be able to configure access restrictions in Nginx. You will also be able to manage inbound traffic using a number of Nginx features and use Nginx for load balancing and fault-tolerance features. Finally, you will learn how to solve common performance problems and apply a number of performance-tuning strategies. Through easy exploration of the most intricate topics, this book aims to bring you to the next level in your Nginx experience.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Technology

150 pages, Paperback

First published July 22, 2015

Reviews

[Brad Taplin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful technical details. Most of it could be derived from online manuals and examples, of course, and the presentation is much more of a technical manual than a story.

It took some firsthand experience, for example, to absorb why some things are done as they are. And it wasn't terribly clear, best I recall, on how to deploy the rpm under a non-root service account.

But useful.

[Saleh Rahimzadeh · Rating 3 out of 5]

A simple introduction to Nginx.