From what I've read both NGINX and OS will cache static files being served in memory. Is there a way to set how much RAM NGINX is allowed to use? My web server will be exclusively serving a large amount of ephemeral static files from disk and I want these to be served from RAM when possible.
I also saw a post that claimed reading from disk will block an entire nginx worker. Is this true?
I have have a nginx server serving http and https and I have varnish behind to cache the apache requests
nginx (80+443) -> varnish (6081) -> apache (8081)
when I serve pages using 443, pages are already cached with port 80 (image references etc)
therefore browser alerts saying there is some encrypted and unencrypted content on the page.
I cant use relative URLS.
os: centos6x
build install nginx and php both from the source
nginx.org php.net
i donot have configed nginx server before.
I'm using php-fpm with nginx as http server (I don't know much about reverse proxies, I just installed it and didn't touch anything), without Apache nor Varnish.
I need nginx to understand and honor the http headers I send.
Introduction
While checking the referrals to my page, I have found that one visitor came through google with the “why use varnish with nginx” keyword, these days I’ve been experimenting with both Nginx and Varnish, in front of my Apache server with a Drupal application.
So, I decided to write a little about what I’ve found.
If you do not know about Nginx or Varnish, here is
Make Browsers Cache Static Files On nginx
This tutorial explains how you can configure nginx to set the Expires HTTP header and the max-age directive of the Cache-Control
HTTP header of static files (such as images, CSS and Javascript files)
to a date in the future so that these files will be cached by your
visitors' browsers.
i see a lot of talks about using nginx + varnish and i do not get why? isn`t nginx enough?
nginx has SSI, Reverse proxy cache, lightweight, ssl, can work with cgi, fpm...
varnish has the same things, but no ssl, cgi support
thanks in advance
I use a webserver as a mobile app backend, which doesn't serve any static content. In fact even images are loaded from the database (MongoDB) and served dynamically.
I'm asking myself if in that case are there any advantages when moving from Apache to Nginx. Instead of one apache process there is one PHP-FPM process needed for each concurrent connection.
I have SVN, TRAC and Web server installed in my server.
SVN and TRAC services are configured on Apache, listening 81 port, http://localhost:81/svn and http://mylocalhost:81/trac.
Web server is NGINX, listening 80 port.
I would like to configure nginx to allow access to SVN and TRAC using http://localhost/svn and http://localhost/trac.
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