HTTPOXY Vulnerability: How to protect and test your web server https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/httpoxy-protect-your-server/
GoAccess (A Real-Time Apache and Nginx) Web Server Log Analyzer
GoAccess (A Real-Time Apache and Nginx) Web Server Log Analyzer http://www.tecmint.com/goaccess-a-real-time-apache-and-nginx-web-server-log-analyzer/
Build nginx with Google PageSpeed module for better performance
This tutorials explains how to build nginx with the latest version of the nginx_pagespeed module on Debian Jessie. The PageSpeed module applies web performance best practices to pages, and associated assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) and therefore speeds up your web site and reduces load times.
How to build nginx with Google PageSpeed module on Debian 8 (Jessie) https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/nginx-with-ngx_pagespeed-on-debian-8-jessie/
Seems like an interesting weekend project.
Install and Manage WordPress-Nginx Websites from the Command Line with EasyEngine
EasyEngine (ee) is a Linux shell-script to install and manage wordpress-nginx websites in one go. Using EasyEngine, you can install Nginx, PHP, MySQL, Postfix, phpMyAdmin and their dependencies in one shot easily without the help of a System administrator. It makes very easy to install and manage wordpress-nginx websites, and you don’t have to manually install each packages and memorize all commands. Everything will be done automatically on the background. EasyEngine will work on Ubuntu LTS versions such as Ubuntu 12.04/14.04, and Debian 6/7 version.
Looks like it would take some of the tedium out of deploying WP sites. This blog runs WP on Nginx and getting it set up was not super easy, lots of config file fiddling was called for. EasyEngine is open source and on Github at https://github.com/rtCamp/easyengine.
Nginx Launches Commercial Support Option, Looking to Unseat IIS As #2 Web Server
Anyone who pays any attention to Web servers knows that Apache is the most popular Web server. What only professional Web developers and administrators know is that Nginix, a high-performance, open-source Web server, is battling with Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) for second place.
Now, in order to leapfrog IIS and claim the No. 2 spot for itself, Nginx (pronounced Engine-X) has announced the availability of Nginx Plus, a fully supported version of the server program. This new version comes not only with professional support services, which have been available since February 2012, but with additional features. The commercial version has been developed and supported by Nginx’s core engineering team and is available on a subscription basis starting at $1,350 per instance per year.
via Nginx, the popular open-source Web server, goes commercial | ZDNet.
This blog is served up with Nginx as part of the LEMP stack. This move is likely to accelerate growth of Nginx adoption.
Build a serious WordPress server for high traffic website | David Euler on coding and design
http://www.beyondlinux.com/2011/11/10/build-serious-wordpress-site/
When building WordPress for high traffic website, we maintain and restart the web server frequently for better SEO and better user experience; but we don’t want to interrupt user’s visiting.
When we get familiar with SEO, the link/site structure may change and need to update nginx configuration which need restart of nginx. When nginx new version released for fixing a dangerous security issue, we need upgrade nginx.
So we need at least 2 nginx instance for load balance, and another nginx as proxy server. Let’s build the 3 nginx instance on a single server with the same nginx installation(or use 2 nginx installation if need upgrading nginx ). Two of the instance serves WordPress with the same WordPress installation and the same database.