Example Nginx FastCGI cache configuration file for a vhost: #FASTCGI MICROCACHE – START# fastcgi_cache_path /etc/nginx/cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=microcache:100m max_size=1024m inactive=1h; add_header X-Cache $upstream_cache_status; #FASTCGI MICROCACHE – END# server { listen 80; server_name website.com; […] #FASTCGI MICROCACHE – START# set $no_cache 0; # POST requests and urls with a query string should […]
Edit /etc/logrotate.d/nginx and add: /var/www/vhosts/*/logs/*.log { daily missingok rotate 52 compress delaycompress notifempty create 640 nginx adm sharedscripts postrotate [ -f /var/run/nginx.pid ] && kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid` endscript }/var/www/vhosts/*/logs/*.log { daily missingok rotate 52 compress delaycompress notifempty create 640 nginx adm sharedscripts postrotate [ -f /var/run/nginx.pid ] && kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid` endscript } […]
The code below must be included inside the http{} block: ## Add here all user agents that are to be blocked. map $http_user_agent $bad_bot { default 0; libwww-perl 1; ~(?i)(httrack|htmlparser|libwww) 1; } ## Add here all referrers that are to blocked. map $http_referer $bad_referer { default 0; ~(?i)(babes|click|diamond|forsale|girl|jewelry|love|nudit|organic|poker|porn|poweroversoftware|sex|teen|webcam|zippo|casino|replica) 1; }## Add here all user […]
This is a list of JavaScript content-types: text/js application/javascript application/x-javascript text/javascripttext/js application/javascript application/x-javascript text/javascript Example usage in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file: gzip on; gzip_http_version 1.1; gzip_comp_level 6; # http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpGzipModule#gzip_disable gzip_disable "msie6"; gzip_proxied any; gzip_types text/plain text/css text/xml text/js application/xml application/javascript application/x-javascript text/javascript application/json application/xml+rss; gzip_buffers 16 8k; gzip_vary on;gzip on; gzip_http_version 1.1; gzip_comp_level 6; # http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpGzipModule#gzip_disable gzip_disable […]
Create a file in your website root folder named purge.php: <?php // Allow only safe IP addresses //if ( $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’] != "SERVER.IP.ADDRESS.HERE" ) die( "IP address not allowed!" ); echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", time())." :: Checking cache file…<br />"; $cache_path = ‘/var/www/nginx-cache/’; if ( !is_dir($cache_path) ) die( date("Y-m-d H:i:s", time())." :: ".htmlspecialchars($cache_path)." […]
Lets suppose you need to support uploading of 50MB files. Edit /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini file and set these parameters: upload_max_filesize = 50M post_max_size = 50Mupload_max_filesize = 50M post_max_size = 50M Edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and set this parameter: http { … client_max_body_size 50m; … }http { … client_max_body_size 50m; … } Restart PHP and Nginx services: service php5-fpm reload […]
Add this in the vhost file: # Protect specific TXT and config files location ~ /(\.|wp-config.php|readme.html|license.txt|schema.txt|password.txt|passwords.txt) { deny all; } # Protect ~ files location ~ ~$ { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; } # Protect .git files location ~ /\.git { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; } # Protect […]
Recently I tested Nginx + PHP-FPM + MySQL with Blitz.io service: 10,000 concurrent connections with Nginx + PHP-FPM + MySQL I have tested it again, but this time with 20,000 concurrent connections: As you can see from the above image, the rush generated 654,550 successful hits in 60 seconds and the average hit rate of […]
I have recently registered to blitz.io, a very interested cloud service which allows users to stress-test a web server simulating up to 50K concurrent connections, with the possibility to specify different regions to originate requests, the HTTP method, the timeout and much more. This service can help to properly configure the web server (Nginx, Lighttpd, […]
If you run a Nginx web server you may have already encountered the annoying 504 Gateway Time-out errors. This kind of error messages are generated most probably by the PHP max execution time limit or by the FastCGI read timeout settings. Try raising max_execution_time parameter in /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini file: max_execution_time = 600max_execution_time = 600 Then you […]