Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites
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Re: Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites
#2Couldn't these results be skewed because Nginx is often used as a reverse proxy?
If there is Apache or something custom behind Nginx it will show up as Nginx I guess. I do not see this issue adressed and it might cause significant skew if you look at the top websites (since they will more often deploy these kinds of tricks)
Re: Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites
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Re: Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites
#4Couldn't these results be skewed because Nginx is often used as a reverse proxy? If there is Apache or something custom behind Nginx it will show up as Nginx I guess. I do not see this issue adressed and it might cause significant skew if you look at the top websites (since they will more often deploy these kinds of tricks)
Nginx is used as a reverse proxy for less strong application servers. IMHO (and experience) doing it for Apache would be pretty useless.
Re: Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites
#5Couldn't these results be skewed because Nginx is often used as a reverse proxy? If there is Apache or something custom behind Nginx it will show up as Nginx I guess. I do not see this issue adressed and it might cause significant skew if you look at the top websites (since they will more often deploy these kinds of tricks)
Isn't it considered best practice to serve your static files through Nginx itself and only reverse proxy requests for dynamic endpoints? And if that's the case, Shouldn't Nginx be counted as a full web server?
Re: Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites
#6can someone link up a good "nginx for newbies" type resource for someone who is familiar with programming?
Re: Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites
#7can someone link up a good "nginx for newbies" type resource for someone who is familiar with programming?
Re: Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites
#8Couldn't these results be skewed because Nginx is often used as a reverse proxy? If there is Apache or something custom behind Nginx it will show up as Nginx I guess. I do not see this issue adressed and it might cause significant skew if you look at the top websites (since they will more often deploy these kinds of tricks)
Good point, or perhaps more used as the LB? We prefer Varnish as the reverse proxy, but we are using nginx as load balancer, which still shows up as the server in the response header, even though we exclusively run apache on the back-ends to serve the PHP application. I am not sure how typical this setup is though.
Re: Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites
#9can someone link up a good "nginx for newbies" type resource for someone who is familiar with programming?
Here's a good starting point for getting your config right:
Re: Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites
#10can someone link up a good "nginx for newbies" type resource for someone who is familiar with programming?
http://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.html
After reading the beginner's guide (which is pretty good and cover most of the simple stuff), I suggest reading http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls and http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil to see some "best practices" (which usually aren't followed in many tutorials out there, even on nginx's own wiki).