Nginx

I took the time to write up a best practices wiki page on the Nginx wiki for Drupal. Your configurations may or may not be similar and may or may not add extras. The setup in the Nginx wiki will not cover things like using Boost or Varnish.

The configuration in the wiki will provide an excellent base for anything you want to do with Drupal (and Pressflow). It takes a lot of beginner mistakes and explains why they are the wrong way. There are a massive number of beginner mistakes that I've seen around drupal.org and the rest of the Internet. I hope that linking to this page will help.

Hi,

Forgive the newbie question but I hope this will be of use to others and help people decide whether nginx is for them.

I'm currently planning a new server and am considering using nginx in place of apache. I've been reading through several posts in this group and found some interesting discussion. What would be really useful though is to get a sense of the current status of support for nginx in Drupal, so that those in my position can make an informed decision about whether Drupal + nginx is currently solid, stable and well supported or experimental, bleeding-edge and only for the intrepid.

The impression I've got so far:

Hi, I am running my website Pakreviews.com on Nginx with Boost enabled but I am not seeing any performance difference by Enabling or Disabling boost at all. Here is my nginx configuration file, Please help me out figuring what might be the issue

server {
listen 80;
server_name pakreviews.com;
rewrite ^(.*) http://www.pakreviews.com$1 permanent;
}

server {
listen 80;
server_name www.pakreviews.com;

access_log /www/projects/pakreviews/logs/access.log;
error_log /www/projects/pakreviews/logs/error.log;

location = / {
root /www/projects/pakreviews;

UPDATE: Barracuda and Octopus new home is on d.o, plus there is BOA group:

http://drupal.org/project/barracuda
http://drupal.org/project/octopus
http://groups.drupal.org/boa

UPDATE: After introducing dual-core Barracuda/Octopus Aegir Installer, this thread is continued also here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/89594.

I have several drupal sites that rarely change. I want nginx to cache all uri in proxy_cache for x days, except

  location ^ admin/*

For example, a user requests /node/3, nginx looks for the uri in proxy cache. If it finds it, then serves it directly. If it can't find it, proxy the request to backend (apache+php in my case). When apache returns the content, nginx puts it in proxy cache and send it to the user.

My current conf works (I don't use imagecache) but doesn't achieve my goal. Here is my configuration file in whole.

  server {
          listen       80;
          server_name  example.org;
          root   /var/www/pf;
          index  index.html index.php;

  #######  PART 1 ######

          location ~* .+\.(ico|jpg|gif|jpeg|css|js|flv|png|swf)$ {
           expires max;
           proxy_cache cache;
           proxy_cache_key $host$uri#is_args$args;
           proxy_cache_valid 200 304 12h;
           proxy_cache_valid 302 301 12h;
           proxy_cache_valid any 1m;
          }

  ############ PART 2 ################
          # we need this 'location / '  since all drupal requests are handled by index.php
          # and since by simply use location ~* .php$ won't work??!!
          location / {
           proxy_pass       http://apache;
           proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
           proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
          }

  }

I think in PART 1, I put static files in proxy cache. Static file served by nginx but I can't verify whether they come from the proxy cache.

Is there a way to injecting a special header value before putting a file into the cache? So i can tell if a file is coming from the cache simply by looking at the headers.

PART 2 seems to me to make ALL requests go to apache. But I want nginx to try proxy cache first.

How do I do that? Thanks in advance!

Hi all,

I just created a drupal setup with postfix.
When i try to create user, i expect email will be send out to user to notify them.
But what i get is 'Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if the problem persists.'
i installed postfix as some suggest, but not problem persist.
anyone can kindly advise how to do it?
i thinking of receive email using google apps (on thunderbird) and send email using my own smtp (to avoid sendmail limit)

I've been using the dotdeb.org pacakges for my ubuntu 9.10 servers and they've been running well, except for some necessary patches to contrib modules for php 5.3.

Now ubuntu 10.04 lucid is out and has php 5.3.2 in it. While php5-fpm won't be included in an official release until at least 5.4, it has become a part of official php development and is contained in the php version control.

A heads-up to my fellow developers. I ran into this problem on Lighty, but it probably is going to occur on all non-Apache server daemons, so I'm cross-posting this to the Nginx and IIS groups too.