Comments on: Nginx as a reverse proxy for Apache

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:13:06 +0000

Awesome tutorial! Thank you! I had some problems getting everything up and running, but if it wasn’t for your help I would have gotten started..

By: as

as — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:48:57 +0000

That’s correct!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:56:59 +0000

They can listen on the same port if they use different interfaces. So Apache listening on the loopback and Nginx on eth0 is working fine.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:49:34 +0000

Hi,
Thank you for that interesting article.
But I’m a bit surprised: AFAIU Apache and NginX listening on the same TCP port (80)?
Sounds weird, doesn’t it? unless this is done by binding Apache on the loopback? does it work without any problem?
Thanks. Cheers,

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:35:34 +0000

Check the setting “user” in the nginx.conf file. You should assign nginx the same user and group as apache is running with.

By: Vish

Vish — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:38:12 +0000

Hi,

How are you?

I am having permission denied errors in the error log with nginx. Did you change the permissions on the file or yours worked fine in the your settings. Can you please suggest a fix around this issue?

Thanks.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:48:46 +0000

Thanks Stefano for mentioning this typo. I corrected it in the article.

By: Stefano Gargiulo

Stefano Gargiulo — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:48:27 +0000

Thank you very much.

It was very useful to get rid of apache and to boost up it where i can’t get rid of it.

Just an improvement:

the regex to detect images and static content is wrong: you should escape the “.”

~* ^.+.(jpe?…
becomes:
~* ^.+\.(jpe?…

if you don’t add this you can get errors in urls like:

http://www.mysite.org/fantastico
because it ends with something followed by “ico”

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:43:49 +0000

You can either let nginx handle the SSL communication or pass SSL traffic directly to the Apache server.

Take a look at the nginx SSL documentation: http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpSslModule

By: car9

car9 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:31:23 +0000

hi;

what if we want run SSL on our virtual host? how to configure it? Thx

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