Tag Archives: nginx

nginx+drupal revisited

nginx Recent nginx updates support try_files and internal location directives. These features make nginx more flexible as a web server for Drupal. try_files checks for existence of files in order, and returns the first file that is found. In Drupal’s logic, try_files enables the server to check Boost-generated cache, imagecache images, and Drupal installation in [...]

Apache proxy, cache, and web service optimization

At UPEI our web pages are powered by an open-source web platform Drupal but served as static pages that are mirrored (in our terminology, scraped) by httrack to a front-end server. Most components of web pages are static except emergency messages, contact forms, and some bits of media files. All external access goes to the [...]

Use Nginx to run your Drupal site

Type: Tutorial Difficulty: Intermediate I have a fresh website based on Apache+PHP5 to be converted into Nginx and PHP5-FastCGI. What can I do? Stage 1 CGI version of PHP5 Nginx only supports CGI version of PHP5 (not the Apache module). In FastCGI mode, PHP5 runs like a server that forks out a number of children [...]

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