Nginx is a powerful web server program. I have discussed before the growing popularity of nginx and how to get started with it. This post will build on that and show you how to block and allow specific IP addresses with nginx. Blocking IP addresses is useful when you want only certain people to access a […]
Category Archives: nginx
How to set up phpMyAdmin with nginx
It seems that phpMyAdmin is generally served with Apache or lighttp, since those are the options the Ubuntu package gives for configuring during the install. However, I use nginx for my web server. This is how you can use nginx to serve phpMyAdmin. Install nginx and phpMyAdminIf you haven’t installed nginx and phpMyAdmin yet, do […]
Getting Started with the Nginx Web Server
Apache is still by far the most popular web server on the Internet. According to w3techs, Apache’s market share is 61.9% of all know web servers. But nginx is coming up fast with 16.1% of all web servers tracked by the site. I had never heard of nginx until I got my first gig as a web […]
Install nginx in CentOS 6
I recently got a very inexpensive VPS. In fact it was so cheap, they didn’t even offer my a choice of linux distros. Apparently, you can have any distro you want, as long as it’s CentOS. Coming from an Ubuntu/Debian background, I had a little bit to learn. One lesson was how to install the […]