Here are a number of Nginx configurations for common scenarios that should help make things easier to get started with. This page will grow as needed. Includes some sample configurations for Wordpress, Wordpress + W3TC, Drupal and NibbleBlog.
Search Page Getting Hammered?
On my Wordpress Caching write up someone mentioned asked a very good question. What good is the caching if your site gets brought down by excessive search queries? Fortunately the Nginx webserver has a way to soften the impact.
Kwolla; shows promise but lacks professionalism.
Over the years I’ve seen several social network scripts and applications pop up, dolphin, socialengine, buddypress and so forth. I’ve worked with SocialEngine on two major occasions (2.8 and 4.1.2), already went thru the painstaking process of making a script like SocialeEngine work rather decently with a fast Nginx server configuration. So naturally any time I see a social networking script pop up that wasn’t specifically built for a website, I consider it bloatware. Kwolla however shows promise, if not for a human flaw behind it.
Nginx and Codeigniter The Easy Way
How to get Codeigniter running on NGinx the easy way.
Removing l10n.js
Anyone who has upgraded to Wordpress 3.1 probably notices a new javascript being auto-loaded on their sites. It’s a very simple script that replaces htmlenities with the actual characters they represent. Here’s how to disable it.
Debian/Ubuntu Nginx init Script (opt)
Normally if you install Nginx from a repository this init script would already be included. However if you installed from source, or did not use the standard paths, you may need this.
IPv6 with OpenVz (venet)
While setting up IPv6 connectivity on host systems, OpenVz w/ veth, or Xen containers is easy, doing the same with a typical OpenVz container using venet tends to run into problems. This guide shows you how to get IPv6 going on a OpenVz VPS that only has venet available to it. Also included, some tweaks and caveats regarding setting up Nginx, Apache (httpd), and other services with IPv6 connectivity.
Protecting Folders with Nginx
This question comes up every so often, and its actually fairly easy besides the fact you do not use an .htaccess file. This writeup will show you how to implement auth_basic in Nginx as well as some alternatives to the htpasswd utility installed.
Apache and Nginx Together
This article is basically food-for-thought for those who wish to use Nginx either side-by-side or in front of the Apache (httpd) HTTP Server. Within covers tweaking the two to work with each other as well as some configuration scenarios.
Mimic Apache mod_geoip in Nginx
Maxmind makes a variety of APIs and tools to use their geolocation database and one such tool is the mod_geoip module for Apache. This article will show you how to setup Nginx’s own geoip module and mimic the same variables presented to PHP like Apache does.