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Block Countries With Nginx and GeoIP
You can use nginx to either allow or deny certain countries from accessing your site using the GeoIP database which maps IP addresses to the origin country. Nginx GeoIP Requirements Nginx Installation – Nginx must already be installed on your server if it is not yet. Please see How to Install Nginx Nginx must also be […]
Nginx Browser Caching
You can use Nginx to Set cache expiration times to leverage browser caching for the user requesting specific file types. This will cause the browser to retain the downloaded image until the length of the expires header. This will cause faster page time loads on each subsequent request performed by the end user. Prerequisites: You […]
Nginx Directory Protection
There are a few different ways to protect directories with Nginx. Password protection is typically to keep certain users out or only let certain users in. This is useful in protecting certain content on websites you do not want everyone to be able to access. This guide assumes you already have a running Nginx installation, […]
Piwik Analytics on Nginx
Piwik is a open source web site analytics software. It is free and opensource and can be used to track Nginx requests as well as Apache. This guide covers the Nginx configuration and installation of Pikwik. You can read more about Piwik here. If you do not already have Nginx and PHP-PFM installed, please see […]
Nginx Caching for WordPress using fastcgi_cache
Caching PHP requests can dramatically reduce server resources per request and make the pages load time decrease substantially. In this tutorial we are going to utilize the fastcgi_cache functions in nginx to cache PHP requests making it. This tutorial assumes you have the following already completed on your server: Nginx installed, if you do not […]
Install The ngx_cache_purge Module In Nginx
Ngx_cache_purge is a module which will allow the fastcgi_cache, proxy, SCGI and uWSGI caches to have content purged from them. The caches allow precompiled code to be served as opposed to running a new version each time. This can greatly reduce the amount of processing power per page request. This specific module allows that cached […]
Nginx Load Balancing
Nginx can be used as a load balancer to multiple back-end web servers using the proxy functions. This guide will cover the basics of configuring the proxy server to pull from the other web servers. It assumes you already have completed the initial install of Nginx. If you do not already have a install please […]
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