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J. S. TonelloPractical Linux DevOpshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8318-9_7

7. Web Server Alternatives

John S. Tonello1  
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Baldwinville, NY, USA
 

In the last two chapters, you got a good Apache workout, configuring a robust LAMP stack to handle a variety of web-based applications. In this chapter, you’ll take a look at a common alternative, the popular NGINX web server. You’ll wrap up with trying your hand at some web server alternatives for times when you only need something quick and lightweight.

Before diving into NGINX, try your hand at deploying a WordPress server. WordPress is a PHP application that uses MariaDB (MySQL) as the back end to store all ...

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