Archive for the tag 'nginx'

on demand mirroring with Nginx – Android docs

I know the Android SDK comes with a complete copy of the documentation. But I noticed that the one online has been recently updated and I want read it even when my ADSL disconnects. Therefore I configured Nginx to obtain a on-demand mirror of that page, which should work for other pages, too. Here it is: Read more »

new ebuild for Nginx

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 »

Pointers to software for writing webapplications in C/C++/Boost

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 »

nginx on SheevaPlug

SheevaPlug illustration

*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 »

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