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Puppet 2.7 Cookbook
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Puppet 2.7 Cookbook

by John Arundel
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
5h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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 Creating Nginx virtual hosts

Nginx is a fast, lightweight web server that has replaced Apache in many contexts, especially for running web applications. However, the configuration language is not a great improvement in clarity over Apache's. Also, much of the documentation is only available in Russian, which explains why you see so many copies around of "Understanding Russian for Nginx Administrators".

Getting ready…

You'll need the Nginx module we used in the section, Running a command when a file is updated. You'll also need to turn off the Apache server if you created one in the section on Managing Apache servers in this chapter using the following command:

# service apache2 stop

How to do it…

  1. Add this to /etc/puppet/modules/nginx/manifests/init.pp ...
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