Unlike Apache httpd server Nginx has no ebuilds which let you select which modules you want to have installed with it. Yet.
On last Saturday I have written an eclass to simplify maintaining Nginx ebuilds and added a new Portage variable NGINX_MODULES to USE_EXPAND. In other words, from that on you can select Nginx modules like for Apache. As an example, Read more »
As you might have noticed I switched to C/C++ and Boost (and my own preprocessor) for writing high-performance webapplications. In most cases I write them as module to Nginx.
These resources have been very helpful for me in the beginning: Read more »
*Update: patch to support libatomic-ops for increased performance and no segfaults *
*Update 2: the patch has been included in Nginx 0.8.30 (and later), step 7 can be omitted *
Last Friday, after about a week of order processing and five days in shipping, my SheevaPlug has arrived in Germany. It is revision 1.2 1.3 and came pre-installed with Kernel 2.6.30-rc5 and Debian – which surprised me as many sites made me expect Ubuntu.
Nevertheless, I have already installed Gentoo on it preserving that Debian as rescue system. But before having done that I have installed Nginx on the SheevaPlug. And this is how: Read more »
A lot has been written about Wordpress tuning. Unfortunately utilizing CDNs with Wordpress is despite a few plugins still fiddly and requires modifications to themes, links and the such. Yet even a lot of plugins don’t correctly link to their JS files, resulting plugins such as My-CDN not being able to rewrite all links.
Therefore I have written a plugin to hook a rewriter into PHPs ob_start(). Without going further into technical detail, it lets you use a CDN for your Wordpress blog within minutes.
Download the “OSSDL CDN off-linker” here: Wordpress Plugin page.
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