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Integrating Nginx and a Shibboleth SP with FastCGI

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The canonical place for this documentation is now the nginx-http-shibboleth custom Nginx module GitHub repository. All updates will be reflected there, and as a result, this page has become severely outdated. Please contribute to that repository!

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Note

With changes in Nginx after version 1.5.4, the auth request module is now built in. This means the following instruction have changed, yet again.

tl;dr: You can have Nginx with Shibboleth. Rebuild Shibboleth with FastCGI support, and recompile Nginx with a custom module. You can now run the Shibboleth FastCGI authorizer and responder applications and successfully …

in Web · Mon 22 April 2013

Switching to Nginx from Cherokee: Techincal Guide

This is a follow up to a previous post on Switching to Nginx from Cherokee. Read that in case you’re here and haven’t already.

All information here on a server level is related to RHEL 6. You will need to change some instructions for Debian based systems. CentOS should be fine and needs only a minor URL change in the repo configuration.

Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo and add this:

[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/rhel/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

Run yum install nginx to install Nginx.
Start rebuilding your …

in Web · Fri 12 April 2013

Switching to Nginx from Cherokee: Why

After a switching away from Apache some time ago, our primary web server had been running Cherokee for quite a while - since September 2011, in fact, looking back at the configuration history. More recently, however, I’ve switched us again. This time to Nginx - with impressive improvements in performance and configurability (10x for some static files) — and reliability.

Note

See my technical guide for technical info about switching.

Background

Originally, the selection of Cherokee as web server software looked promising - the Cherokee project had been around for a while, was gathering support, had a reasonable level of uptake, and consistent …

in Web · Thu 11 April 2013

Serving uWSGI Apps on a Sub-directory with Nginx

Serving up uWSGI application using Nginx is super-simple and is configured effectively like a standard reverse proxy_pass. However, the documentation isn’t entirely clear exactly how one can correctly serve an application against a sub-directory — and have the application know its correct path such that it can create correct URLs.

Coming from a background of using the Cherokee webserver, uWSGI operated slightly differently within its configuration. This behaviour, as best I know, must have modified the given uWSGI parameters to correctly handle the sub-directory path. I haven’t looked into it, but it probably just does the same thing that …

in Web · Sun 07 April 2013

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