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NGINX Cookbook
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NGINX Cookbook

by Tim Butler
August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
8h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introduction

If you've ever wondered whether you can make a few changes to NGINX dynamically or wanted a bit more flexibility, then you're going to love OpenResty.

Think of OpenResty as NGINX with the kitchen sink thrown in; it's a combination of NGINX, along with Lua scripting, and several additional third-party modules all packaged up and ready to use. The inclusion of Lua scripting and additional modules allows NGINX to be extended to be a full web application rather than simply a web server.

Some may fear that this additional functionality comes with a performance hit, but this simply isn't the case. Large platforms, such as Cloudflare ...

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ISBN: 9781786466174