[TYPO3-linux] typo3 under nginx

[Gilles Kirouac]

  Your answer is clear, complete and useful to me.

  Thanks a lot for taking the time, Jan.

  Such help gives me some hope about the future of mankind! 

 ~ Gilles


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From: Jan Slusarczyk <janslu at grupaiis.pl>
To: typo3-linux at lists.netfielders.de
Sent: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:55:15 +0200
Subject: Re: [TYPO3-linux] typo3 under nginx

> On 3/27/09 10:28 PM, Gilles Kirouac wrote:
> >    Typo3 normally requires Apache as a web server.
> > Can I use nginx (nginx.net)? Where can I find advice?
> > Is there a How-To on the subject?
> 
> Nginx will not "run" typo3 on it's own. You have to have PHP 
> running. But you can use nginx in two ways:
> 
> 1. as a proxy to Apache with mod_php. This is fairly easy, nginx 
> serves all static files, php requests are proxied to Apache. nginx 
> is working on a public IP, apache on a virtual private one. Only 
> thing need for apache is mod_rpaf to translate IPs.
> 
> 2. as a single frontend to fastcgi php processes pool. This is an 
> apache-free config.
> 
> Both ways will free resources if you have a traffic on your site. I 
> don't think there's a universal answer to the question which way is 
> better. I have settled on proxy-to-apache version (solution 1) 
> because fastcgi seemed to be a bit less reliable and harder to 
> monitor. Performance wasn't much different between these two on my 
> server (up to 120 requests per second, a lot of traffic generated by 
> vbulletin board).
> 
> You can find configuration examples on nginx wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxConfiguration
> 
> I'm pretty sure other people will know better than me. I can only 
> tell you that in my more than a year experience nginx is really rock 
> solid, small and very agile. It has saved me a lot of resources (ram 
> mainly) and so far it didn't fail me.
> 
> Cheers
> Jan
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