Nginx support?

[rickmills]

I noticed this mainly uses a htaccess file which is an apache specific thing. Is there any plans to support nginx given this is all about performance? Nginx can be configured to be significantly faster than apache :)

[tobias-kuendig]

Unfortunately nginx doesn't make it easy to provide additional configuration at runtime.

With .htaccess files we can tune apache for a single website without needing access to the whole configuration. We cannot dynamically edit nginx's configuration under /etc via PHP.

We could, however, provide some nginx performance tips in the README.

[multiwebinc]

To get server push to work for Nginx I actually just used https://github.com/JacobBennett/laravel-HTTP2ServerPush, which this is based on.

In my site's conf file I had to make the following changes:

listen 443 ssl http2;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
ssl_ciphers         HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
location / {
    # append the following
    http2_push_preload on;
    fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
    fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
}

Then restart Nginx and follow the installation instructions in the above link.

[tobias-kuendig]

If you are using the speedy plugin you don't have to install an additional package. With http2 support enabled, this plugin will add the Link headers already. The nginx config will have to be patched manually, though.

What you won't get out-of-the-box on nginx is any of the caching headers that this plugin adds via the .htaccess file.

[multiwebinc]

It didn't seem to do anything for me for some reason. That's why I installed that other package, then it worked right away.

[Samuell1]

If anybody wants to use gzip with nginx you can add this code to ngix directives:

gzip on;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\\.(?!.*SV1)";
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_comp_level 5;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/javascript application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript image/x-icon image/bmp image/svg+xml;
gzip_vary on;