Apache and NGINX are two of the most widely used web servers on the internet serving billions of web pages daily. Apache has been around since the mid-1990s and has long been the dominant player in the market, while Nginx introduced in 2004 and has gained popularity even at a faster rate in a shorter … Read more
Introduction In this post, I will go over details of how to install NGINX web server, MySQL Server and PHP on an Ubuntu Server. I will also go over the details of setting up SSL and Virtual Host Configuration for NGINX. Let’s start with our installation on the Ubuntu version of Linux. NGINX HTTPD Web … Read more
Introduction In this post, I will go over details of how to install Nginx webserver and PHP on Windows 10, 11 or Windows Server. I will show where to download and how to do the configuration of Apache and integration with PHP. I will also discuss some advanced configuration options for the setup as well. … Read more
Web servers like Apache, IIS, and Nginx are designed to serve client requests over the HTTP protocol. In that process, they can save information about requests and responses in logging files using standard log formats. The known formats are used across different web servers making it easy to understand logging information. See Also In this … Read more
In this post I will go step by step through optimizing PHP and WordPress to reduce page load times and increase requests/second of your website. WordPress is used on over 42% of all websites on the global internet. Considering that there are over 1.1 billion websites this comes to over 460 million website using WordPress … Read more
Nginx is used as not only a web server but also as a reverse proxy with the ability to cache content. There are two types of proxy servers, forward and reverse. In this post, I will focus on setting up Nginx as a reverse proxy with caching content from back-end servers. What is a Reverse … Read more
In this guide, I will discuss Nginx ngx_http_proxy and ngx_http_upstream modules, which provide the ability to proxy connections to backend application web servers and provide load-balancing capabilities. This proxying ability allows Nginx to pass requests to upstream webs servers for the final processing of a web request. The ability to proxy requests to single or … Read more