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www.it-ebooks.info Mastering NGINX An in-depth guide to configuring NGINX for any situation, including numerous examples and reference tables describing each directive Dimitri Aivaliotis BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI www.it-ebooks.info Mastering NGINX Copyright © 2013 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. First published: March 2013 Production Reference: 1070313 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Livery Place 35 Livery Street Birmingham B3 2PB, UK.. ISBN 978-1-84951-744-7 www.packtpub.com Cover Image by Asher Wishkerman ([email protected]) www.it-ebooks.info Credits Author Project Coordinator Dimitri Aivaliotis Abhishek Kori Reviewers Proofreader Yasir Adnan Aaron Nash Andrew Alexeev Antonio P. P. Almeida Indexer Tejal Soni Rainer Duffner Graphics Acquisition Editor Aditi Gajjar Usha Iyer Production Coordinator Lead Technical Editor Manu Joseph Azharuddin Sheikh Cover Work Technical Editors Manu Joseph Varun Pius Rodrigues Lubna Shaikh www.it-ebooks.info About the Author Dimitri Aivaliotis works as a Systems Architect at a hosting provider in Zurich, Switzerland. His career has taken him from building a Linux-based computer network for a school up through dual-datacenter high-availability infrastructures for banks and online portals. He has spent over a decade solving his customers’ problems and discovered NGINX along the way. He uses the software daily to provide web serving, proxying, and media-streaming services to his customers. Dimitri graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and received an MS in Management Information Systems at Florida State University. This is his first book. I would like to thank John Blackwell and Phil Margolis for reading early drafts of the manuscript. Their criticism and tips have helped me greatly and made this a better book. I would also like to thank the technical reviewers for providing constructive feedback and pointing out errors I have made along the way. Any remaining errors are of course my own. The team at Packt Publishing has been really supportive in getting this project off the ground. Their faith in me as a writer has bolstered me during the dark times of missed deadlines. The knowledge and support of the NGINX, Inc. team has been instrumental in filling in the gaps in my understanding of how NGINX works. I could not have written this book without them. An especially heartfelt thanks goes out to my family. My wife and children have had to cope with my many writing sessions. Their patience during this time is greatly appreciated. www.it-ebooks.info About the Reviewers Yasir Adnan lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a computer science student. He also works as a freelance programmer. He has worked on both mobile and web applications. Nowadays he mainly develops mobile applications. He can be reached at [email protected]. Andrew Alexeev is a co-founder of NGINX, Inc.—the high performance web company behind the NGINX web server. Prior to joining NGINX, Inc. at the beginning of 2011, Andrew worked in the Internet industry and in a variety of ICT divisions for enterprises. Andrew holds a diploma in Electronics from St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University and an executive MBA from Antwerp Management School. Antonio P.P. Almeida (@perusio) has been obsessed with NGINX and high-performance web stacks ever since he was trying to develop for Drupal on a battered 1.3 GHz Centrino-based laptop and Apache’s resource appetite made NGINX inevitable. He has been learning how to get the most out of NGINX in all possible kinds of applications, in particular all the subtleties of NGINX configuration language. He lives and works in Paris. Besides NGINX, his other main obsessions are obscure late Italian medieval music, cinema, and how to make Drupal more awesome. www.it-ebooks.info Rainer Duffner received a degree in Information Systems from the University of Applied Science in Konstanz, Germany, and currently works as a Systems Engineer at EveryWare AG, where he helps customers get the most out of their managed dedicated FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris servers. He lives in a small town next to Zurich, Switzerland, and enjoys spending his free time on a mountain bike around Zurich and the Swiss mountains. I’d like to thank Dimitri for the opportunity to help review this fine book. 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