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Re: NginX Reporting for Duty

hadar — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:35:20 -0000

To me, my blog seems to load a ton faster, but that could be that somehow php-fpm is faster than mod_php (though, I assume that both are resident, so it may be more due to nginx).

As for mod_rewrite, it's actually a one-liner in nginx. Basically, if the URI doesn't exist on the filesystem (that's the part I screwed up initially, entirely my fault!), then you simply pass it as a parameter to index.php in the blog root.

Works like a charm, no matter what the permalink structure on your site. It's beautifully simple. :-)

Re: NginX Reporting for Duty

thingles — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:28:27 -0000

I heard some chatter from people saying that Wordpress on nginx is "noticeably" faster than on Apache and that they even disabled WP-Cache as a result. You see any big jumps in performance?

I'm going to get a RoR app setup via nginx as well. Seems really slick to have nginx on front with PHP-FPM and Mongrel.

The thing that confuses me the most about nginx is how to handle wordpress nice URL's. I saw lots of fright from people about the lack of mod_rewrite. You seem okay though, yes?

Re: NginX Reporting for Duty

hadar — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:25:45 -0000

I'm super happy with NginX and separately with PHP-FPM. I am running many vservers as well, and it's trivial to manage them all. When you're ready, please don't hesitate to holler if I can help in any way! :-)

Re: NginX Reporting for Duty

thingles — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:19:39 -0000

Wow! Thanks for doing this writeup Hadar! I do plan to switch to nginx but don't want to do it until I return home in July. Seems like it will take a bit of doing. This post is going to be a huge help when doing it. Thanks for taking the time.

Re: NginX Reporting for Duty

hadar — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:45:38 -0000

Cool! I'm part of the Google group now for php-fpm, so I'll see any announcements about newer versions, and look forward to checking them out. Thanks for letting me know!

Re: NginX Reporting for Duty

hadar — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:44:43 -0000

Good to know! There are cases where the logic could/would be simpler with if's, but I hear ya. Thanks for sharing!

Re: NginX Reporting for Duty

mike — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:38:51 -0000

yeah dude - php-fpm is the best way to go for fastcgi management (soon to be even better) and nginx i am discovering is hands down the best way to do any web proxying or web serving. it has a couple minor things i've realized are annoying (and surprised that it hasn't been fixed before) but otherwise i've been extremely happy with the switch.

Re: NginX Reporting for Duty

fixxxer — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:38:37 -0000

>Specifically, if can’t be used within a regular expression based if test, even if you aren’t using variable substitution in the proxy_pass itself.

It seems that you just should not use if()s in nginx.conf for such kind of things, it is rather slow and not intended for request-uri case handling; it is supposed to be used in specific cases like user-agent checks etc.

use regexp locations instead.

to avoid copy-pasting, put some directives to the server{} level, or use the include directive.