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In this basic level series, I will post best practices to configure the NGINX web server using Linux based instances.
Introduction In the world of web servers and content delivery, Nginx has emerged as one of the most popular and efficient solutions. One of the key features that make Nginx stand out is its powerful buffering capabilities. In this article, we will ex...
Worker processes When we start the NGINX service, we get a master process which we can view using systemctl. This master process then spawns worker processes that are used to serve requests. The default is one worker process. We can change the no. of...
PHP is a popular scripting language that is often used to create dynamic web pages. However, PHP can be resource-intensive, especially on high-traffic websites. This is where NGINX and php-fpm come in. NGINX is a high-performance web server that can ...
Directive inheritance in NGINX is a way of reusing configuration directives in different parts of the NGINX configuration file. Directives are inherited from the parent context to the child context. A context is a block of configuration directives. T...
Here are the different types of NGINX directives: Global directives are instructions that apply to the entire NGINX configuration. For example, the worker_processes directive specifies the number of worker processes that NGINX will create. worker_p...
Logging is extremely important as it allows us to view errors, malicious users and bots. There are 2 types of logs - access logs and error logs. As the name suggests, error logs are used to log errors and warnings. Access logs log all requests to the...
