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Trust No One: The Perils of Trusting User Input
A newly discovered security threat exploits a configuration that allows remote users to specify the server for a request in the HTTP Host header, and thus access potentially sensitive information. In this post we explain how to prevent this “cloud metadata” attack.
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Monitoring MySQL with NGINX Amplify
NGINX Amplify now features MySQL support. Amplify monitors the entire LEMP stack, including variations: Linux, (E)NGINX, MySQL/MariaDB/Percona, PHP, and PHP frameworks such as WordPress. This blog post shows you how to configure the Amplify MySQL plug-in, metrics monitored, and troubleshooting.
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Installing WordPress with NGINX Unit
NGINX Unit supports PHP, which is very widely used for web programming. NGINX Unit therefore supports WordPress, written in PHP, and which is a content management system and application used by more than 30% of the sites on the Web. Use this blog post to install Unit and NGINX together with WordPress.
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Announcing NGINX Unit 1.0
NGINX Unit 1.0, a multi-language applications server, launched today. Unit supports Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, and Go, with more languages to come. Unit is dynamically configured using a REST API; there are no process reloads or service interruptions required for configuration changes to take effect.
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Introducing gRPC Support with NGINX 1.13.10
NGINX now proxies gRPC traffic, so you can terminate, inspect, and route gRPC method calls. Manage encryption and load balance gRPC traffic.
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NGINX Unit 0.6 Beta Release Now Available
You can now download the Unit beta, version 0.6, with advanced process management, Perl support, an official Docker container, and more.
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NGINX Response to the Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities
The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities stem from commonly found security flaws in microprocessors. They require patches to most OSs.
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Performance Tuning: Tips & Tricks
How to tune your NGINX installation to meet, and beat, published performance benchmark – includes caching, SSL/TLS, and hardware settings.
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Troubleshooting Application Performance and Slow TCP Connections with NGINX Amplify
Senior software engineer Anatoly Mikhaylov shows how to use Amplify as a visualization and reporting tool for fixing dodgy TCP connections.
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Optimizing Web Servers for High Throughput and Low Latency
Alexey Ivanov, Site Reliability Engineer at Dropbox, goes into depth on optimizing NGINX web servers for high throughput and low latency.
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NGINX and IoT: Adding Protocol Awareness for MQTT
Liam Crilly gets down with IoT, showing how to use NGINX and the MQTT protocol to manage traffic on the Internet of Things
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Official Ansible Roles for NGINX Out Now
NGINX created officially supported Ansible Roles for the open source NGINX software and NGINX Plus, now replaced by a unified Role.
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The Future of Open Source at NGINX
Ed Robinson, Chief Marketing Officer, and Owen Garrett, Head of Products, discuss the future of NGINX’s open source projects at NGINX Conf 2017.
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Introducing NGINX Unit
Igor Sysoev, co-founder and CTO of NGINX, and Nick Shadrin, Sr. Product Manager of NGINX, introduce NGINX Unit
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nginx.conf 2017 Keynote: NGINX CEO Gus Robertson
NGINX CEO Gus Robertson’s talk from his conference keynote: How NGINX Helps You Deliver Change, Faster and Better
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Testing the Performance of NGINX and NGINX Plus Web Servers
We analyze the results of performance testing for NGINX and NGINX Plus as a web server.
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HTTP/2 Theory and Practice in NGINX Stable, Part 3
Nathan Moore of StackPath, formerly of MaxCDN, discusses NPN/ALPN, NGINX particulars, benchmarks, and more. Part 3 of 3.
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Compiling and Installing ModSecurity for NGINX Open Source
In this blog we cover how to protect your website by compiling and installing ModSecurity 3.0 for NGINX Open Source. ModSecurity 3.0 is a complete redesign of ModSecurity that works natively with NGINX.