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Mastering NGINX

You're reading from   Mastering NGINX Personalize, customize and configure NGINX to meet the needs of your server

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
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ISBN-13 9781782173311
Length 320 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dimitri Aivaliotis Dimitri Aivaliotis
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing NGINX and Third-Party Modules FREE CHAPTER 2. A Configuration Guide 3. Using the mail Module 4. NGINX as a Reverse Proxy 5. Reverse Proxy Advanced Topics 6. The NGINX HTTP Server 7. NGINX for the Application Developer 8. Integrating Lua with NGINX 9. Troubleshooting Techniques A. Directive Reference
B. The Rewrite Rule Guide C. The NGINX Community D. Persisting Solaris Network Tunings
Index

Wiring NGINX and uWSGI together


The Python Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) is an interface specification formalized as PEP-3333 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3333/). Its purpose is to provide a standard interface between web servers and Python web applications or frameworks to promote web application portability across a variety of web servers. Due to its popularity in the Python community, a number of other languages have implementations that conform to the WSGI specification. The uWSGI server, although not written exclusively for Python, provides a way of running applications that conform to this specification. The native protocol used to communicate with the uWSGI server is called uwsgi.

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More details about the uWSGI server, including installation instructions, example configurations, and other supported languages, can be found at http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/ and https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi-docs.

The uwsgi module of NGINX can be configured to talk to this server using...

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