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How To Configure Nginx to Use Custom Error Pages on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Nginx to Use Custom Error Pages on CentOS 7

Nginx is a high performance web server capable of serving content with flexibility and power. When designing your web pages, it is often helpful to customize every piece of content that your users will see. This includes error pages for when they request content that is not…

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How To Set Up Nginx Load Balancing — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up Nginx Load Balancing

This article covers how to set up a simple load balancer on a cloud servers with nginx. The tutorial covers setting up a round robin loadbalancer that can then direct site visitors to one of a set of IPs

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How To Configure Nginx as a Web Server and Reverse Proxy for Apache on One Ubuntu 14.04 Droplet — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Nginx as a Web Server and Reverse Proxy for Apache on One Ubuntu 14.04 Droplet

This tutorial will show you how to configure Nginx as both a web server and as a reverse proxy for Apache – all on one Droplet. Depending on the web application, code changes might be required to keep Apache reverse-proxy-aware, especially when SSL sites are configured. To ensure this, we will install an Apache module named **mod_rpaf** which rewrites certain environment variables so it appears that Apache is directly handling requests from web clients.

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How To Fix Common LetsEncrypt Errors — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Fix Common LetsEncrypt Errors

There are many common errors you may encounter when configuring your domain name or HTTPS support. This tutorial will review some common errors you may encounter when dealing with DNS, HTTPS, or Let’s Encrypt specifically.

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How To Install WordPress, Nginx, PHP, and Varnish on Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install WordPress, Nginx, PHP, and Varnish on Ubuntu 12.04

Varnish is an HTTP accelerator and a useful tool for speeding up a server, especially during a times when there is high traffic to a site. It works by redirecting visitors to static pages whenever possible and only drawing on the server itself if there is a need for an active process. This tutorial covers installing wordpress on a LEMP stack (with nginx instead of apache), and then installing varnish.

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