August 2019
Beginner
608 pages
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The Unicorn web component cannot be used directly as it does not offer all the features for handling clients. The reverse proxy that is bundled by default is NGINX. It is also possible to use Apache as a frontend for GitLab, but it is preferable to use NGINX. There are many web servers available that could be installed in front of Unicorn, but in the end, there are basically two types, which are as follows:
NGINX and lighttpd are probably the two most-well known asynchronous servers. Apache is without a doubt the de facto standard process-based server. The biggest difference between the two types is how they handle scalability. For a process-based server, any new connections require ...
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