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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 | 4 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 ...

Install WordPress 2.8.4 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

Date: 2009-10-20 | Tags: ubuntu, wordpress | 1 Comment

Since we're using WordPress at work, I decided to install WordPress on my local machine for testing and educational purposes. Here are my notes. The versions of stuff are: WordPress 2.8.4, Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, MySQL 5.1, PHP 5.2.6, Apache 2.2.11 with prefork mpm.

Install prerequisites

Install Apache and PHP

sudo apt-get install php5
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql

Install MySQL Server
```
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
```
Set a password for the MySQL root user when prompted.

Download Wordpress code

cd /var/www
sudo wget http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.4.tar.gz ...

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