Nginx HTTP Server, Third Edition

Chapter 5. PHP and Python with Nginx

The first decade of the twenty-first century has been the decade of server-side technologies. Over the past fifteen years or so, an overwhelming majority of websites have migrated from simple static HTML content to highly and fully dynamic pages, taking the Web to an entirely new level in terms of interaction with visitors. Software solutions, including open source ones, emerged quickly and some became mature enough to process high-traffic websites. In this chapter, we will study the ability of Nginx to interact with these applications. We have selected two applications for different reasons. The first one is, obviously, PHP, W3Techs, a website specializing in web technology surveys, reveals that as of June ...