Master Nginx: A Complete Guide to Installation, Configuration, and Advanced Use

This is a comprehensive Nginx server learning and practice guide covering fundamentals, history, features, installation, core and advanced applications.

It is suitable for web developers and operations personnel, combining theory with practice to help readers deeply understand Nginx.

Contents (partial)

Web Service Basics

Nginx Basics

Detailed Core Configuration

Advanced Configuration

Rewrite Functions

Reverse Proxy

System Parameter Optimization

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Web Service Basics

Review of China's internet development, including the first internet line in 1993 and early web directories.

Introduction to basic concepts of web services, how browsers access web servers, and market analysis by Netcraft.

Nginx vs Apache

Apache Server: Describes prefork, worker, and event multi‑process models and their pros and cons.

Nginx Server: Explains its origin, evolution, high‑performance characteristics, and widespread use in internet companies.

Nginx Core Configuration

Global Settings

Introduces global directives such as user, worker processes, CPU affinity, and error logs.

HTTP Block

Details HTTP block configuration, including MIME types, log formats, response headers, file caching, and connection timeouts.

Server Block

Describes virtual host setup: listening ports, server names, root directories, index files, etc.

Location Block

Explains how to match request URIs and perform corresponding actions using location directives.

These sections are illustrated with relevant diagrams.