Comments for Nginx, IMO

Comment on Why doesn’t Nginx support .htaccess files? by adityamenon

adityamenon — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:50:06 +0000

Thanks, that’s a good overview and those are good points. An osCommerce site I was working on was a victim of a .htaccess attack a long time ago, so I can relate. I also picked up a nugget from here: better disable .htaccess completely in can’t-help-but-Apache setups, and do the configuration from Apache’s config file like gcbenison mentioned.

Comment on What features are missing in Nginx? by Alex

Alex — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:29:33 +0000

Ideally, make configuration like

location *.jpg {
…
}

merge with configuration like

location /some/path {
…
}

for url like /some/path/some/file.jpg

Comment on What features are missing in Nginx? by Alex

Alex — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:24:48 +0000

Make Location directives inherit configurations as in:

location /user {
# Configuration shared by anything that’s “below” /user, unless
# overriden by more specific location section
}

location /user/cgi {
# Configuration that makes it different from what was already configured by “location /user” section.
# Currently “location /usr/cgi” does not inherit what was configured by “location /user”.
# And “include” directive is far from what is considered convinient.
}

Comment on What features are missing in Nginx? by wellsc

wellsc — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:12:35 +0000

DSO’s are slated for Nginx 2.0, which should be out next year.

Comment on Apache 2.4 – fast or fastest? by snabb

snabb — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:15:19 +0000

You have very valid points here. After years of headaches from trying to tune Apache installations for optimal performance and to tolerating high request floods i looked at nginx. I have never needed to look back. Apache feels completely obsolete now.

Comment on What features are missing in Nginx? by snabb

snabb — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:50:57 +0000

It would be great if nginx had dynamic modules. Then OS distributions could package it the same way as for example the uwsgi Debian/Ubuntu package: the user can install exactly the modules that are needed and leave out extra clutter. Also users could compile additional un-packaged modules independently of the main package maintainer.

Currently the package maintainers need to pre-select a list of likely needed modules and build a couple of alternatives, such as nginx-light and nginx-full in Debian/Ubuntu. This is far from optimal.

Comment on Why doesn’t Nginx support .htaccess files? by gcbenison

gcbenison — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:00:15 +0000

It’s worth noting that the Apache developers themselves point out that there’s nothing you can do in .htaccess that you can’t do from Apache’s configuration file; .htaccess is mainly about letting users without permission to edit the configuration files do a bit of configuration. So users may be accustomed to doing things in .htaccess and not realize that there is another way.