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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.