Frontend Webserver

Description

How to configure the most popular Frontend servers.

This guide particularly focuses on Unix-like environments, though the stack discussion may be useful to everyone.

• Apache
  • Introduction
  • Installing Apache front-end for Plone
  • Procedure to restart Apache in production environment
  • www-redirects
  • Migration redirects
  • Proxying other site under Plone URI space
  • Redirecting certain URIs to old site
  • Virtual hosting Apache configuration generator
  • Caching images
  • Testing cache headers
  • Flushing cache
  • Custom 500 internal error page
  • Load balanced Apache virtual host configuration
• Nginx
  • Introduction
  • Minimal Nginx front end configuration for Plone on Ubuntu/Debian Linux
  • Buildout and recipe
  • Config test
  • Deployment configuration
  • Manually killing nginx
  • Debugging nginx
  • www-redirect
  • Permanent redirect
  • Make nginx aware where the request came from
  • PHP with nginx and PHP-FPM
  • SSI: server-side include
  • Session affinity
  • Securing Plone-Sites with https and nginx
  • Setting log files
  • Proxy Caching