Title: From apache to nginx
Date: 2012-10-06 15:58

I just moved the majority of my web infrastructure from [Apache][] to
[nginx][], and I'm pretty happy with this move.

Initially, I just wanted to deploy a dead-simple Python web application,
and doing it (in a clean way) with Apache is a complete nightmare. This
was the straw that broke the camel's back: I always wanted to try
something else than Apache, let's go for nginx !

First impression: the configuration's format is simple and clear ! No
more mod\_macro or even worses hacks, I've got my whole configuration in
less than 200 lines file that is even pleasant to read ! First, I wanted
to use it as frontend to Apache and as reverse-proxy for various others
to play with Python and Ruby, but I ended with Apache being used only
for some uglies CGI, like Icinga's ones.

Nginx is incredibly flexible and simple (but not simplistic !), I'm
using it for:

-   Reverse-proxying python/ruby web application
-   Serving and cache all my static content
-   Serving some php-powered stuffs
-   *Self-proxying* applications that aren't very comfortable with ssl
    (hint: Wordpress)

Since they are already an [impressive][] [shitload][] of (pleasant)
documentations/examples about nginx all around the Internet, I don't
post my configuration here because it's not really custom/exceptional.
But feel free to drop me a mail if you absolutely want it.

Except some blogposts about deploying useless stuffs with nginx ;)

  [Apache]: http://people.apache.org/~rbowen/presentations/apacheconEU2005/hate_apache.pdf
  [nginx]: http://nginx.org/
  [impressive]: https://calomel.org/nginx.html
  [shitload]: http://wiki.nginx.org/Main