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NginX and WordPress OpenID Plugin | Random Musings — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:10:35 +0000

[...] in June 2008 (yes, a long time ago), I switched from Apache to NginX and have never looked back. The trickiest [...]

By: hadar

hadar — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:35:20 +0000

To me, my blog seems to load a ton faster, but that could be that somehow php-fpm is faster than mod_php (though, I assume that both are resident, so it may be more due to nginx).

As for mod_rewrite, it's actually a one-liner in nginx. Basically, if the URI doesn't exist on the filesystem (that's the part I screwed up initially, entirely my fault!), then you simply pass it as a parameter to index.php in the blog root.

Works like a charm, no matter what the permalink structure on your site. It's beautifully simple.

By: thingles

thingles — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:28:27 +0000

I heard some chatter from people saying that Wordpress on nginx is "noticeably" faster than on Apache and that they even disabled WP-Cache as a result. You see any big jumps in performance?

I'm going to get a RoR app setup via nginx as well. Seems really slick to have nginx on front with PHP-FPM and Mongrel.

The thing that confuses me the most about nginx is how to handle wordpress nice URL's. I saw lots of fright from people about the lack of mod_rewrite. You seem okay though, yes?

By: hadar

hadar — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:25:45 +0000

I'm super happy with NginX and separately with PHP-FPM. I am running many vservers as well, and it's trivial to manage them all. When you're ready, please don't hesitate to holler if I can help in any way!

By: thingles

thingles — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:19:39 +0000

Wow! Thanks for doing this writeup Hadar! I do plan to switch to nginx but don't want to do it until I return home in July. Seems like it will take a bit of doing. This post is going to be a huge help when doing it. Thanks for taking the time.

By: hadar

hadar — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:35:20 +0000

To me, my blog seems to load a ton faster, but that could be that somehow php-fpm is faster than mod_php (though, I assume that both are resident, so it may be more due to nginx).

As for mod_rewrite, it’s actually a one-liner in nginx. Basically, if the URI doesn’t exist on the filesystem (that’s the part I screwed up initially, entirely my fault!), then you simply pass it as a parameter to index.php in the blog root.

Works like a charm, no matter what the permalink structure on your site. It’s beautifully simple.

By: thingles

thingles — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:28:27 +0000

I heard some chatter from people saying that Wordpress on nginx is “noticeably” faster than on Apache and that they even disabled WP-Cache as a result. You see any big jumps in performance?

I’m going to get a RoR app setup via nginx as well. Seems really slick to have nginx on front with PHP-FPM and Mongrel.

The thing that confuses me the most about nginx is how to handle wordpress nice URL’s. I saw lots of fright from people about the lack of mod_rewrite. You seem okay though, yes?

By: hadar

hadar — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:25:45 +0000

I’m super happy with NginX and separately with PHP-FPM. I am running many vservers as well, and it’s trivial to manage them all. When you’re ready, please don’t hesitate to holler if I can help in any way!

By: thingles

thingles — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:19:39 +0000

Wow! Thanks for doing this writeup Hadar! I do plan to switch to nginx but don’t want to do it until I return home in July. Seems like it will take a bit of doing. This post is going to be a huge help when doing it. Thanks for taking the time.

By: hadar

hadar — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:45:38 +0000

Cool! I’m part of the Google group now for php-fpm, so I’ll see any announcements about newer versions, and look forward to checking them out. Thanks for letting me know!