a tutorial on how to install nginx 1.*.* as reverse proxy for apache and drupal (include boost image cache and etc')?

Posted by yakovyarmo on June 5, 2011 at 5:08pm

Can anyone please explain or upload a brief tutorial on how to integrate apache with nginx as reverse proxy and still use boost and other apache module?

And what kind of cahce is better (boost or native nginx)?
(I saw a long thread about it but i kind of lost it to the end)

limudnaim

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Well

Posted by perusio on June 8, 2011 at 1:06am

You have to make nginx serve the static assets including the HTML generated pages by Boost. For the remaining you do a proxy_pass to an Apache backend.

For a configuration check those listed at the top of the group. Most of them support Boost.

You should say if you're using drupal 6, pressflow or drupal 7.

I recommend you take a look at this thread to get a notion of what's involved in setting up Nginx as a reverse proxy to Apache.

That should give you something to start working.

Thank you. I am using drupal

Posted by yakovyarmo on June 8, 2011 at 9:19am

Thank you.
I am using drupal 6. Are there any patches i need to apply to make it work?

To make it work while saving you trouble

Posted by perusio on June 8, 2011 at 1:29pm

yes. But as suggested in the thread I referred above you'll be much better using pressflow. Since it already does a lot of things for you like setting a bunch of cookies and headers. Since there's no migration to speak of when moving from D6 to pressflow: untar it and you're done, I don't see any compelling reason to stay with stock drupal.