nginx

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) comes with nginx 0.6.34. This nginx worked fine, until one day I tried to use "try_files". Nginx returned error : "Unknown directive: 'try_files'". Later I learnt only nginx version 0.6.36+, 0.7.27+ or 0.8.x support the 'try_files' command. So, I decided to upgrade my nginx to the newest stable version, and it turned out the process was so hard:Read more >>

To run your drupal site on nginx, the lightweight web server, you will need a custom conf file to make nginx working with php. If you want to enable drupal's clean url function ( maybe you should because a clean url is both more user-friendly and Search Engine friendly ), you will need a additional nginx rewrite rule. I have managed to get drupal 6 working on nginx, and here is what in my nginx configuration file:Read more >>