Nginx currently holds shy of 6.5% of the known webserver market, which is just roughly shy of 13 million servers. This little lightweight webserver created by a sole Russian developer has been gaining a great deal of popularity over the last few years and is used by sites such as Wordpress, Texts from Last Night and Hulu.
This guide will provide you with common migration tips to move from an Apache server to an Nginx configuration.
One of the most frustrating thing someone can do involving their websites is moving them from one hosting provider to another. It's increasingly more difficult if your hosting was based on a control panel such as Cpanel, and try to migrate to a different kind of control panel or none at all. This article will show you how to migrate the two most important parts (files and database) from Cpanel to another control panel such as DirectAdmin.
I'm creating this page on popular request, as I've had to paste my configuration for people a number of times especially on IRC. Below is an example configuration of how kbeezie.com is setup with some comments.
Over the last couple of years I've been constantly researching for a way to get the PHP environment variables to show up correctly. My latest pains were with PATH_INFO and PHP_SELF, which are now finally solved.
If you're like me, you don't even want the insecure FTP protocol running on your server, but by default wordpress doesn't even give you the option of using SSH to automatically upgrade your plugins, or wordpress itself. This article shows how you can add a few extra lines to wp-config.php to enable automatic updates with wordpress.
Most of my domains are registered with Namecheap, and powered by Nginx. The site you are viewing now is one such example. Currently with Namecheap, domain registrations, hosting, transfers and WhoIS protection come with a free PositiveSSL subscription. This section will show you how to generate a certificate request with OpenSSL and how to install the provided certificate into Nginx.