Nginx Fundamentals: High Performance Servers from Scratch
Course description
Learn to install, configure and tweak NGINX to create secure, high performance web servers from scratch. 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.
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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
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!
- Understand basic networking concepts
- Be comfortable using the command line
- This course is aimed at Nginx newbies looking to get started as quickly and effectively as possible.
- The aim is to get a practical understanding of Nginx as a real-world web server and not dig into all of it's features.
- The course does not cover hosting/networking concepts, but rather assumes an understanding of the basic principles and use of commands such as curl.
What you'll learn:
- Learn to create custom Nginx web servers
- Customise your Nginx install
- Secure & optimise your server
- Add an invaluable skill to your resume
- Verifiable certificate of completion
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All Course Lessons (39)
| # | Lesson Title | Duration | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction Demo | 01:48 | |
| 2 | About NGINX | 01:16 | |
| 3 | NGINX vs Apache | 04:32 | |
| 4 | Server Overview | 02:43 | |
| 5 | Installing with a Package Manager | 05:31 | |
| 6 | Building Nginx from Source & Adding Modules | 09:39 | |
| 7 | Adding an NGINX Service | 05:41 | |
| 8 | Nginx for Windows | 00:59 | |
| 9 | Understanding Configuration Terms | 01:37 | |
| 10 | Creating a Virtual Host | 07:02 | |
| 11 | Location blocks | 06:12 | |
| 12 | Variables | 06:48 | |
| 13 | Rewrites & Redirects | 07:17 | |
| 14 | Try Files & Named Locations | 06:11 | |
| 15 | Logging | 05:39 | |
| 16 | Inheritance & Directive types | 03:09 | |
| 17 | PHP Processing | 11:31 | |
| 18 | Worker Processes | 06:27 | |
| 19 | Buffers & Timeouts | 07:43 | |
| 20 | Adding Dynamic Modules | 07:11 | |
| 21 | Headers & Expires | 05:30 | |
| 22 | Compressed Responses with gzip | 05:02 | |
| 23 | FastCGI Cache | 13:01 | |
| 24 | HTTP2 | 12:51 | |
| 25 | Server Push | 04:25 | |
| 26 | HTTPS (SSL) | 11:18 | |
| 27 | Rate Limiting | 11:58 | |
| 28 | Basic Auth | 03:34 | |
| 29 | Hardening Nginx | 07:17 | |
| 30 | Let's Encrypt - SSL Certificates | 12:08 | |
| 31 | Prerequisites | 04:30 | |
| 32 | Reverse Proxy | 07:25 | |
| 33 | Load Balancer | 07:37 | |
| 34 | Load Balancer Options | 03:47 | |
| 35 | Documentation & Resources | 02:58 | |
| 36 | Bonus Lecture: Feedback & Course Coupons | 00:50 | |
| 37 | Adding an NGINX Init Service | 05:28 | |
| 38 | GeoIP | 05:16 | |
| 39 | Video streaming | 02:33 |
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