Re: installing nginx on centos should be straightforward

2013-02-19 Thread mottwsc
OK, Steve - thanks for your help. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,236254,236317#msg-236317 ___ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx

Re: installing nginx on centos should be straightforward

2013-02-17 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 17:09 -0500, mottwsc wrote: > Thanks for catching that type, GreenGecko. > > I was able to get nginx installed, but at this point it won't start (bind, > that is). > > Is this problem familiar to anyone? > > >>> the end of the installation... > Installed: > nginx.x86_64 0:1

Re: installing nginx on centos should be straightforward

2013-02-17 Thread mottwsc
Thanks for catching that type, GreenGecko. I was able to get nginx installed, but at this point it won't start (bind, that is). Is this problem familiar to anyone? >>> the end of the installation... Installed: nginx.x86_64 0:1.2.7-1.el6.ngx Complete! >>> trying to start nginx... [root@01 ~]# /

Re: installing nginx on centos should be straightforward

2013-02-17 Thread Steve Holdoway
Sent from my iPad On 18/02/2013, at 2:42 AM, "mottwsc" wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion, Steve. I was working from that angle before > based on advice from a person at my hosting company and had used the nginx > repo. I am addressing three points in response. Any suggestions/thoughts > fr

Re: installing nginx on centos should be straightforward

2013-02-17 Thread mottwsc
It looks like PHP-FPM comes with PHP 5.3.3, so I should have it already for use with nginx. Thanks. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,236254,236268#msg-236268 ___ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailm

Re: installing nginx on centos should be straightforward

2013-02-17 Thread Richard Kearsley
Hi Many (MANY) people use php-fpm and it's fine If you really need extra performance you should test it yourself on your own application (not hard to do) and see if proxying to apache actually gives any benefit ___ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org

Re: installing nginx on centos should be straightforward

2013-02-17 Thread mottwsc
Here's the article: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-configure-nginx-as-a-front-end-proxy-for-apache I agree that if I could do it all with one web server, it would be simpler/cleaner. I'm just not sure based on what is in this article that nginx will be fine alone - "ngin

Re: installing nginx on centos should be straightforward

2013-02-17 Thread Richard Kearsley
what was the article that you read? you should probably do your own tests to work out the fastest way to do it if you really need as many dynamic requests as possible My thoughts at this point (after using nginx for 3+ years) is that I would avoid using apache - KISS! On 17/02/13 13:42, mottws

Re: installing nginx on centos should be straightforward

2013-02-17 Thread mottwsc
Installing as root allowed the method under (3) to work. Still have a problem starting nginx, but I'll see if I can work thru that. I would appreciate comments on item (1) though from anyone's experience. Thanks. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,236254,236263#msg-236263

Re: installing nginx on centos should be straightforward

2013-02-17 Thread mottwsc
Thanks for the suggestion, Steve. I was working from that angle before based on advice from a person at my hosting company and had used the nginx repo. I am addressing three points in response. Any suggestions/thoughts from you and/or others are appreciated. (1) Reason for nginx and apache: The

Re: installing nginx on centos should be straightforward

2013-02-16 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 17:27 -0500, mottwsc wrote: > I have set up a virtual server with a LAMP stack (Centos 6.3) and am now > trying to install nginx to use as a proxy server. I have been told to > download from sudo rpm -Uvh > http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.r