The following article is all about how to compile and install the blazing fast HTTP server known as Nginx.
So what exactly is Nginx?
It is lightweight, free, open-source and high-performance HTTP server, which, unlike most other HTTP servers, does not rely on threaded handling of the requests but instead, uses a much more scalable and robust event driven (asynchronous) architecture.
This uses a very small and predictable amount of memory under heavy load.
Vanilla is an open-source multi-lingual forum software written in PHP. It’s easy to install and use, with lot’s of addons and themes to choose from. If you are looking for a super fast and ridiculously easy to use forum software that can seamlessly integrate with your existing website on your Linux Virtual Server then Vanilla is just what you are looking for.
The first thing you will need to do is create a file called .htpasswd (it doesn’t have to be named that way). The following command creates a new .htpasswd file and stores a record in it for user tom.
htpasswd -bc /var/www/yourdomain.com/.htpasswd tom password
To create another user:
htpasswd -b /var/www/yourdomain.com/.htpasswd john password
We’ll show you how to create an Nginx Virtual Host, also known as an Nginx Server Block. In one of our previous tutorials we explained How to install and configure LNMP (Nginx, MySQL and PHP) server on a Debian 6 (squeeze) VPS, now we’re going to look at how to set up a new server block (virtual host) for each new domain.
Nginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server which unlike his ‘friends’, it does not rely on threaded handling of the requests but instead it uses a much more scalable event driven (asynchronous) architecture. This uses a very small and predictable amount of memory under heavy load. Nginx in combination with the simple and very robust FastCGI Process Manager for PHP (PHP-FPM) and the world most popular database server MySQL can give you a lot of power and performance while still using a small memory footprint.
The following article looks at how to install and configure this stack on one of our Debian based VPSes.