Comments on: HOWTO: Configure nginx for Debian / Ubuntu

By: fak3r

fak3r — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:42:14 +0000

@Angsuman Chakraborty
I haven’t had any problems, save for when I messed up something with PHP that broke fastcgi for the better part of the day, but that was my fault.

As for performance I haven’t done any real benchmarking, but I do know that it’s using far less resources and doesn’t get restarted every few days like lighttpd did.

oh, and to monitor and restart deamons I’m using the great monit - check it my comments on it here: http://fak3r.com/2008/02/19/howto-use-monit-to-keep-lighttpd-and-varnish-running/

By: Angsuman Chakraborty

Angsuman Chakraborty — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:39:59 +0000

I too have started using Nginx for several of our websites. I have written several articles on Nginx configuration with special focus on virtual web site hosting, rewrite rules and more (linked from my name) which your viewers may find informative.

What is your experience of Nginx performance vis-a-vis Lighttpd?
Are you facing any problems?

By: fak3r

fak3r — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:01:12 +0000

good coverage on utilizing memcached with nginx (something I’ve used before with Apache)
http://www.igvita.com/2008/02/11/nginx-and-memcached-a-400-boost/

and another idea about using perl to cache Wordpress sites
http://letsperl.in/perl/nginx-caching-wordpress

By: fak3r

fak3r — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:57:20 +0000

And here’s a good overview on the rest:
http://rubypond.com/articles/2008/02/01/setting-up-nginx-ssl-and-virtual-hosts/

By: fak3r

fak3r — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:53:01 +0000

Note to self, need to add SSL to this config - will try this first:

server { listen 443; ssl on; # path to your certificate ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/certs/server.crt; # path to your ssl key ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/certs/server.key;


  # put the rest of your server configuration here.
  location / {

     # set X-FORWARDED_PROTO so ssl_requirement plugin works

     proxy_set_header X-FORWARDED_PROTO https;

# standard rails+mongrel configuration goes here. } }