Nginx

Nginx (pronounced "Engine-X") is an open source Web server and a reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols, with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low memory usage. It is licensed under a BSD-like license and it runs on Unix, Linux, BSD variants, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Microsoft Windows.

Nginx is an alternative to the ApacheHttpServer for high concurrency deployments with 10K+ concurrent connections.

Resources:

• http://nginx.org/ - Nginx home
• Wikipedia:Nginx - entry on Wikipedia
• http://www.aosabook.org/en/nginx.html - detailed overview and architecture description
• TWikiOnNginx - installing TWiki on Nginx

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 2012-06-20

Discussion

I am wondering if anybody has installed TWiki on Nginx?

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-06-20

looks easy enough if/when twiki.fcgi works... where does that stand?

-- PaulReiber - 2012-09-23

Are you talking about CgiEngineFastCgiCompatibility? If so, it's in SVN trunk, Existing TWiki-5.x can be patched.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-09-23

I heard that there is an issue with PATH_INFO, which is the /Web/TopicName after the view script. This likely can help:

• http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpFcgiModule#fastcgi_split_path_info
• http://showmetheco.de/articles/2010/4/mojolicious-nginx-and-fastcgi.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11771564/nginx-fastcgi-configuration-for-cgiapplication-app

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-09-23

It would be helpful if a TWiki community member could write up a TWikiOnNginx installation manual.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-09-23

KoheiYoshioka added TWikiOnNginx installation instructions. Thank you very much Kohei-san!

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-09-26

Someone was able to serve TWiki on nginx without the /twiki address? In the root of the address. I've followed the KoheiYoshioka how to but it does not work for / directory. I must issue twiki.domain.com/bin/view to actually get to the Wiki.

-- Vinicius Ferrao - 2014-07-30