Monday 09 May 2011 3:24:36 am

Great tutorial! Well done and thanks for sharing to the community.

I've been using Nginx for some times now but as a proxying server. I've basically configure it to proxy cache all binary files and optionally forward the requests to dynamic content to another server running with Apache. Then using a modified all2evcc extension I can clear the cache on publishing by calling the purge URL handled by NGX Cache Purge plugin.

Saturday 04 June 2011 5:08:22 am

Update: with the recent Dotdeb packages, the tutorial should work exactly the same on a Debian 5 "Lenny" server, with the following exception:

in /etc/apt/sources.list, add

deb http://packages.dotdeb.org oldstable all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org oldstable all

instead of 

deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all

Daniel A. Øien
Open Concept SA, Norway
Web: http://openconcept.no/
In English: http://openconcept.no/eng

Friday 19 August 2011 1:32:00 am

Another detail that you might find useful: to control upload filesizes, there are three settings that you need to configure, one of which is particular to Nginx.

In the server block of your nginx sites (usually in /etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite, or in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf if you're not using sites)  you need to add (examples using 50 MB):

client_max_body_size 51m;   

Where XX is the desired maximum post size. This needs to be slightly higher than upload_max_filesize (see below).

You should also set in php.ini (/etc/php5/fpm/php.ini):

upload_max_filesize = 50M

post_max_size = 51M

The last one needs to be higher than upload_max_filesize as it takes into account other POST data in addition to the actual file.

Daniel A. Øien
Open Concept SA, Norway
Web: http://openconcept.no/
In English: http://openconcept.no/eng