agentzh's Nginx Tutorials

http://agentzh.org/misc/nginx/agentzh-nginx-tutorials-enuk.html

by freestyler • 14 years ago

255 22 14 years ago

freestyler• 14 years ago

The source repository is here https://github.com/agentzh/nginx-tutorials

chc• 14 years ago

Strangely, even though it has a public Github repository, you're not allowed to copy it according to agentzh's copyright notice.

mrspandex• 14 years ago

That font is almost impossible to read.

yaoweibin• 14 years ago

yes, this is the geek style :).

pavelkaroukin2• 14 years ago

Fix your browser/OS default font settings. This page have 0 styling and page with 0 styling should look perfect on your screen if you have everything configured correctly.

286c8cb04bda2• 14 years ago

That page declares lang="zh" in the html tag. So it's probably not using the default font for Western or Unicode, but whatever the browser maps to Simplified Chinese.

In my case that was much uglier, and I had to fix it to read the page.

donpark• 14 years ago

Problem is that 'should look perfect' doesn't match reality.

The page is hard to read on Mac using unmodified Firefox.

themcgruff• 14 years ago

There's two of us at 37signals building projects on top of the HttpLua / ngx_lua module. The OpenResty (http://www.openresty.org) project is absolutely worth a look if you are willing to live on the edge and you wan't incredibly fast performance. I can't say enough good things about the work agentzh and chaoslawful have been up to lately -- just check out their Github profiles.

minikomi• 14 years ago

I really like lua and have been lookin at getting my hands dirty with this.. Sounds like I have my weekend planned then!

silasb• 14 years ago

Yep, awesome project. I have used this to make a mini-heroku. Only problem is that it is http 1.0 and not 1.1.

end_guy• 14 years ago

If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.

wildmXranat• 14 years ago

His and chaoslawful's github projects are worth taking a look at. I slapped on a Lua scripted cache layer on top of Nginx, which ended up boosting a response into low ms.

dylanz• 14 years ago

I worked with agentzh on a module at one point, and he was extremely helpful in validating my ideas and helping me out. He answered all my questions by thorough example and explanation, which is why I'm excited that I saw this post. Hats off to agentzh!

riobard• 14 years ago

For those who don't know, agentzh and chaoslawful made these super-awesome tools around nginx to power Taobao, the largest e-commerce site in China. agentzh left Taobao to work fulltime on OpenResty now. Stay tuned for what's to come from them!

sycren• 14 years ago

Are there any tutorials on how to start a vps as a beginner from scratch? I mean in one place rather than looking for a tutorial in linux then another on apache or nginx and so on...

msbarnett• 14 years ago

There's http://library.linode.com/

But I'd highly suggest learning how to administer a Linux installation from the command line locally before you create a VPS and open yourself up to be hacked as you try to learn how to do everything.

pwf• 14 years ago

I was looking forward to learning nginx, until I read this...

It's very nicely written and explains things well, but it doesn't so much teach nginx as it does point out all the contradictory and unexpected behaviors. That doesn't look fun to learn (or work with) at all.

Edit: I just looked in to agentzh's other project OpenResty, and I take everything back. It may be difficult, but it's extremely powerful, and seemingly worth dealing with the 'gotchas'.

sparshgupta• 14 years ago

agentzh is a great mentor. He has helped me number of times, often looking at my configurations and getting into my systems and tweaking things around to make them work. He even installed the powerful openresty on one of my machines to demonstrate how it can solve my problems and did some benchmarks for me. Respect to agentzh!! cant wait to see it evolve from here

agentzh's Nginx Tutorials

Related Stories