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Nginx HTTP Server

You're reading from   Nginx HTTP Server Harness the power of Nginx to make the most of your infrastructure and serve pages faster than ever before

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623551
Length 348 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald
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Preface 1. Downloading and Installing Nginx FREE CHAPTER 2. Basic Nginx Configuration 3. HTTP Configuration 4. Module Configuration 5. PHP and Python with Nginx 6. Nginx as an Application Server 7. Apache and Nginx Together 8. From Apache to Nginx 9. Introduction to Load Balancing and Optimization 10. Case Studies 11. Troubleshooting 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using HTTP/2

Nginx added support for HTTP/2 in version 1.9.5 and superseded the SPDY (pronounced SPeeDY) module, meaning that, as of 1.9.5, SPDY is no longer available and we now have to use HTTP/2.

If you installed Nginx via a package manager this module is most likely enabled; if you compiled it yourself please make sure you compiled Nginx using the --with_http_v2_module  configure flag.

Similarly to SPDY, HTTP/2 requires the use of SSL, which is good practice regardless. These days, SSL certificates can be issued for free by services such as Let's Encrypt so this is highly recommended.

To enable HTTP/v add the http2 flag to the listen directive:

listen 443 ssl http2;

Module directives

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