NGINX Fundamentals: High Performance Servers from Scratch

Master NGINX installation and configuration to build secure, high-performance web servers, ideal for both beginners and experienced developers.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about getting your hands dirty with NGINX! You’ll learn to install, configure, and optimize NGINX to create super secure and speedy web servers. Perfect for both newbies and pros looking to boost their skills.

Key Points

  • Learn to install & configure NGINX from scratch.
  • Understand the differences between NGINX and Apache.
  • Tweak NGINX for better performance and security.
  • Configure NGINX with a PHP backend.
  • Get practical skills to build secure web servers.

Learning Outcomes

  • Be able to install and configure NGINX effectively.
  • Understand how to customize your NGINX setup.
  • Gain skills in connecting NGINX to other technologies like PHP.
  • Learn to secure your NGINX server using best practices.
  • Know how to optimize NGINX for top performance.

About This Course

Learn to install & configure an NGINX web server from scratch.

Learn to install, configure and tweak NGINX to create secure, high performance web servers from scratch.

Build a strong foundation in NGINX with this practical course suited to both beginners and the more experienced.

  • Learn to customise the NGINX installation

  • Configure NGINX as a web server

  • Install & configure a server-side programming language as an NGINX backend

  • Learn to tweak NGINX for optimal performance

  • Secure NGINX with some security best practises


An invaluable skill for any techie or developer in the web industry

NGINX is the fastest growing and most popular web server for a reason, so understanding it will be an invaluable skill to anyone working in the web industry, specially network admins & web developers.

This course will provide a very practical and concise approach to learning NGINX and will give you a solid base to immediately start creating secure, high performance web servers.

Content and Overview

With 39 concise and practical lectures, this course aims to teach a solid foundational understanding of NGINX and is suitable for anyone with a basic understanding of networking and the linux command line interface.

The course starts by looking at the differences between NGINX and Apache for those with Apache experience and then explains the different ways of installing NGINX, customising your install, and configuring NGINX as a service.

The installation section also covers updating NGINX without downtime and adding/removing modules.

The bulk of the course is then focussed on configuring NGINX as a web server, including connecting it to a PHP backend and configuring some of NGINX's best features, such as Gzipping and GeoIP.

The final section will go over securing the server and the user via SSL and other security best practices.

Upon completion of this course you will have the practical skills to immediately start building secure, high performance web servers or improve and better understand existing hosting solutions you might work with.

This course is to the point and everything is demonstrated in the most simple, yet practical ways.

We do not focus on the theory, but get straight to installing, configuring and learning!

  • Learn to create custom Nginx web servers

  • Customise your Nginx install

  • Secure & optimise your server

Instructor

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Ray Viljoen

Stackacademy provides high-quality Courses for Developers, with learning-efficiency as the number one priority.My name is Ray Viljoen,I have over 10 years experience as a Full Stack Developer and have real world experience building, maintaining & optimising a wide range of applications.My courses are concise, teaches practical skills and is designed to also serve as usable future reference material.

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of Paul McGuinness
Paul M.
5.0
7 months ago

Great course. Really easy to watch and understand, thanks!!

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ui-avatar of Rahul Bajpai
Rahul B.
3.0
7 months ago

ok

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ui-avatar of Carlo Fronteddu
Carlo F.
5.0
7 months ago

Si era adatto a me. Mi ha fornito le giuste informazioni

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ui-avatar of Tim Day
Tim D.
5.0
7 months ago

Great overview of nginx! I would love to see some docker related contexts.

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ui-avatar of JesĂşs BenĂ­tez del RĂ­o
JesĂşs B. D. R.
4.5
8 months ago

Excelente explicaciĂłn de NGINX!!!

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ui-avatar of Gabriel Murillo Rivero
Gabriel M. R.
3.0
8 months ago

a little bit outdated and abandoned, some explanations were not clear, not very well structured

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ui-avatar of Bavithra Chandrakumar
Bavithra C.
5.0
8 months ago

I recently completed an Nginx course, and I found it extremely valuable. The course provided a comprehensive introduction to Nginx, covering everything from basic configuration to advanced topics like load balancing, reverse proxying, and SSL/TLS setup. The step-by-step approach made complex concepts easy to understand, and the practical examples helped me apply the knowledge directly to real-world scenarios.

The sections on performance optimization and security were especially useful for tuning Nginx for high-traffic environments. Overall, it's an excellent resource for anyone looking to master Nginx, whether you're a beginner or looking to deepen your skills.

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ui-avatar of Siva Ajay Kumar Reddy UPPULURI
Siva A. K. R. U.
5.0
8 months ago

Great course with lots of insights for beginners

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ui-avatar of Steven Pérez Alfaro
Steven P. A.
5.0
8 months ago

Awesome curso 👌🏻

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ui-avatar of Omar Jimenez
Omar J.
3.0
8 months ago

It took me a lot of time to find an issue with file permissions from the installation path which was /root, then I had to move these demo files into /var to make them work, and it's something that the training doesn't cover at the beginning

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