NGINX HTTP Server: Harness the power of NGINX with a series of detailed tutorials and real-life examples
Gabriel Ouiran; Clement Nedelcu; Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald
Language: English
Published by Packt Publishing, 2024
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- Title
- NGINX HTTP Server: Harness the power of NGINX with a series of detailed tutorials and real-life examples
- Author
- Gabriel Ouiran; Clement Nedelcu; Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald
- Publisher
- Packt Publishing
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1835469876
- ISBN 13
- 9781835469873
- Edition
- 5th or later Edition
Master NGINX to elevate, accelerate, and optimize your cloud infrastructure
Key Features
- Discover the potential of running NGINX in your environment
- Run NGINX in harmony with your existing cloud infrastructure
- Learn how to fine-tune and adjust NGINX's configuration for best performance
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description
Explore the capabilities of NGINX, a robust HTTP server designed for handling high-traffic websites, with network scalability as its primary objective. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced administrator, this NGINX book will guide you through the complete process of setting up this lightweight HTTP server, from quick and basic configurations to more detailed configurations tailored to your needs. Highlighting the latest version 1.25.2, featuring new features such as HTTP/3 and QUIC, this edition keeps you up to date with cutting-edge developments.
This book is packed with a multitude of real-world examples, which will help you secure your infrastructure with automatic TLS certificates, expertly place NGINX in front of your existing applications, and do much more. From orchestration and Docker to bandwidth management, OpenResty, and NGINX Plus commercial features, you’ll get to grips with enhancing and optimizing your infrastructure or designing brand-new architecture. Moreover, this updated edition will show you how NGINX excels in cloud environments with guides on integrating NGINX with cloud services for deploying scalable architectures efficiently and securely.
By the end of this book, you’ll be able to adapt and use a wide variety of NGINX implementations to tackle diverse challenges with confidence.
What you will learn
- Install and configure a basic setup for NGINX and test it out
- Discover the core functionality of the HTTP module as well as third-party modules
- Understand how to set up NGINX to work with PHP, Python, and other applications
- Optimize your architecture with threads or load balancing
- Configure NGINX with orchestration and work in a Docker environment
- Identify errors in configuration and grasp basic troubleshooting techniques
Who this book is for
This book is for beginners and web administrators looking to master the powerful and secure NGINX HTTP server. Whether you want to replace your existing web server software or integrate a new tool to collaborate with applications that are already up and running, this book will help you achieve your goals. To get started, all you need is access to a Linux server and a basic understanding of web server concepts.
Table of Contents
- Downloading and Installing NGINX
- Basic NGINX Configuration
- Exploring the HTTP Configuration
- Exploring Module Configuration in NGINX
- PHP and Python with NGINX
- NGINX as a Reverse Proxy
- Introduction to Load Balancing and Optimization
- NGINX within a Cloud Infrastructure
- Fully Deploy, Manage, and Auto-Update NGINX with Ansible
- Case Studies
- Troubleshooting
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About the Author
Gabriel Ouiran is a systems administrator at Eduka Software, Singapore, specializing in IT infrastructure with a strong focus on AI and cloud technologies. Gabriel is also a passionate tech enthusiast and a free and open source software contributor. He has over 10 years of experience working in IT for different companies. Gabriel now applies this expertise to enhance educational software solutions.
Clement Nedelcu was born in France and studied at UK, French, and Chinese universities. After teaching computer science, programming, and systems administration at several eastern Chinese universities, he worked as a technology consultant in France, specialized in the web and .NET software development as well as Linux server administration. Since 2005, he has also been administering a major network of websites in his spare time, which allowed him to discover Nginx. Clement now works as CTO. for a Singapore-based company developing management software for schools.
Martin Fjordvald is a 35-year-old Danish entrepreneur who started his company straight out of high school. Backed by a popular website, he became a jack of all trades having to deal with the business, programming, and marketing side of his business. The popularity of his website grew and so did the performance requirements of his code and servers. He got involved with the community project to document Nginx early on and has written several blog posts and wiki articles detailing how Nginx works.
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