NGINX: WordPress

Opalstack has two applications PHP-FPM+NGINX and PHP-Apache for WordPress. . I don’t know much about NGINX.

What will you do to set up your own great overall WordPress? I’m a frontend developer. This is about a backend.

Most people with WordPress have used PHP+Apache for htaccess. I was looking into a rabbit hole about NGINX (pronounce engine-x) PHP-FPM. I have read from DigitalOcean’s Apache vs. NGINX Practical Considerations and Configure Together NGINX and Apache. And from NGINX’s NGINX vs. Apache: Our View of a Decade-Old Question.

Two things I have:

htaccess

• SetHandler php74-cgi
• php_flag display_errors off
• Redirect non-www to www
• Redirect simply redirects both index.htm and index.html to / for both the root
• Begin and End WordPress
• Begin compression and caching
• Expire headers
• Cache-Control Headers
• 6G FIREWALL/BLACKLIST
• Strong Htaccess Protection
• AntiSpamBlog Registration
• Block User ID Phishing Requests
• Block the scraper bot's name is 'evil scraper' (or whatever)
• protect against DOS attacks by limiting file upload size
• Stop spam attack logins and comments
• Prevent malicious xmlrpc.php directory scanning
• Personally, for sites at which I am the only author
• Allow just search engines we like, we're OPT-IN only
• Let just the good guys in, punt everyone else to the curb
• Block Blank User Agents
• Block Logins with empty User-Agent

PHP+Apache (Symbolic Link) for image files.

Can both Apache and NGINX? What will you do?

PS: I just looked at my site now from Webfaction used Firefox Add-ons Web Developer’s View Response Headers and it says server: nginx. I’m shocked that I didn’t know about it. But how does my htaccess work in NGINX?

Thanks, Mikey3D

sean Thanks, Sean

I would like to test myself uploading my local WordPress files to NGINX with your domain links. But I have created a new database and app PHP+Apache (I haven’t tried NGINX app) and changed $table_prefix instead of the default (wp_) in wp-config.php then uploaded it then login DB from adminer and it works. I will figure out how to stop the WP automate creating 5-7 images for one upload image, ridiculous, and among other things for testing first.

Do a pretty permalink and the functions I have listed above here work in NGINX? What can I do with NGINX?

Thanks, Mikey3D

sean OK, after I log into the WP dashboard and re-save the permalink settings and clear the caches and where does WP automate put rewrite rule in NGINX?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

How to in NGINX, the most important basic to have for the web about redirect links?

• Redirect non-www to www
• 301 redirect
• Redirect simply redirects both index.htm and index.html to / for both the root

I have read the links above here DigitalOcean and NGINX said you can do one or both together apache and nginx.

PS: The Opalstack forum color links look like black bold texts. The links standard is blue.

Thanks, Mikey3D

sean That’s why I’m asking questions about what I can do with NGINX? The people say NGINX is better performance and love to configure it. We all want that. I stay away from most plugins. The plugin I have is a functions plugin that I made instead of putting the codes in my WP template functions file. I like to have control. You know how Google works about ranking. We are always trying to improve and optimize our sites, right Sean? How do we optimize in NGINX? How do you redirect permanently from old or broken or delete links to new URLs in your control without a plugin?