Category Archives: nginx

Running Mercurial with FastCGI in nginx

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Peter

Mercurial is a so called DRCS (Distributed Revision Control System). I have been using Subversion for a couple of years, both at work and for my own projects. Now I thought it was about time to try something different. But … Continue reading →

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Nginx rewrite rules for SilverStripe CMS

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Peter

If you are using Nginx with a configuration that is directly serving php pages via FastCGI, you need to adapt the rewrite rules to Nginx. In the case of the CMS-system SilverStripe this is not really straight forward. The original … Continue reading →

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Nginx as a reverse proxy for Apache

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Peter

While Apache is a great server for delivering dynamic content and especially hosting PHP-based websites, it has a high memory footprint and a high overhead when forking new worker processes during high server load. In this article I will describe … Continue reading →

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