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Using Nginx as a caching proxy with Wordpress+Apache

Date: 2009-11-03  |   Modified: 2010-01-05  |   Tags: linux, nginx, ubuntu, wordpress   |   5 Comments

We have been evaluating caching reverse proxy servers at work. We looked at Nginx+memcached, Squid, and Varnish. Most recently, we found that Nginx version 0.7 has support for caching static files using the proxy_cache directive in the NginxHttpProxyModule. This allows us to use Nginx as a caching proxy without having to handle the complication (or flexibility depending on how you look at it) of setting and invalidating the cache as with the Nginx+memcached setup. Here are my notes for setting it up with an Apache+Wordpress backend.

Update 2010-01-05: Over a couple months, we switched to Nginx ...

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Notes on using nginx with mod_python and Django

Date: 2009-04-28  |   Modified: 2009-04-29  |   Tags: blogproject, cardstore, django, linux, nginx, ubuntu

Here are my notes on setting up nginx as a reverse proxy with Apache, mod_python, and Django on Ubuntu Intrepid. Nginx is used to serve my static media files while all other requests are passed on to the Apache/mod_python/Django web server.

I realize mod_wsgi has become the preferred way to deploy Django, but I'm a little behind the times and am still using mod_python. I hope to switch to mod_wsgi soon.

I have been using Amazon's CloudFront service for delivering my static media files. As far as I can tell, it has worked well. My main ...

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