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agentzh's Nginx Tutorials

255 points by freestyler 15y ago

freestyler 15y ago
The source repository is here https://github.com/agentzh/nginx-tutorials https://github.com/agentzh/nginx-tutorials
- chc 15y ago
  Strangely, even though it has a public Github repository, you're not allowed to copy it according to agentzh's copyright notice.
mrspandex 15y ago
That font is almost impossible to read.
- yaoweibin 15y ago
  yes, this is the geek style :).
- pavelkaroukin 15y ago
  Fix your browser/OS default font settings. This page have 0 styling and page with 0 styling should look perfect on your screen if you have everything configured correctly.
  - 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
    That page declares lang="zh" in the html tag. So it's probably not using the default font for Western or Unicode, but whatever the browser maps to Simplified Chinese. In my case that was much uglier, and I had to fix it to read the page.
    - pavelkaroukin 15y ago
      I see this as valid reason. Although, did not see difference on ubuntu and windows. What browser + OS you use? While this is a reasonable explanation, I see many cases where system fonts set wrong and as a result an unstyled page look terrible.
      - 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
        > What browser + OS you use? I saw the problem with Firefox 10 on CentOS. My default font was specifically configured to Bitstream Vera Serif. Setting the default font in the Preferences seems to only change it for the encoding in the active tab (unless you go into the Advanced dialog). For several Asian languages it wanted to use "serif", which appears to be the 20-year-old X11 default version.
        deleted 15y ago
        [deleted]
    - obtu 15y ago
      Looks good on firefox/ubuntu. It's strange that there's a browser using the lang tag for this; as I understand it web pages create a font spec according to style attributes and not lang tags, and fontconfig would only substitute fonts for a range of actual chinese characters if the preferred matching font didn't cover that range.
    - agentzh 15y ago
      Thank you for pointing this out. I've just fixed the lang attribute of the html tag. It is "en" now :)
  - donpark 15y ago
    Problem is that 'should look perfect' doesn't match reality. The page is hard to read on Mac using unmodified Firefox.
G_will 15y ago
Awesome!!! & Niu Bi!!!
zhaoyao 15y ago
God of manong!
themcgruff 15y ago
There's two of us at 37signals building projects on top of the HttpLua / ngx_lua module. The OpenResty (http://www.openresty.org http://www.openresty.org) project is absolutely worth a look if you are willing to live on the edge and you wan't incredibly fast performance. I can't say enough good things about the work agentzh and chaoslawful have been up to lately -- just check out their Github profiles.
- minikomi 15y ago
  I really like lua and have been lookin at getting my hands dirty with this.. Sounds like I have my weekend planned then!
- silasb 15y ago
  Yep, awesome project. I have used this to make a mini-heroku. Only problem is that it is http 1.0 and not 1.1.
- end_guy 15y ago
  If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
wildmXranat 15y ago
His and chaoslawful's github projects are worth taking a look at. I slapped on a Lua scripted cache layer on top of Nginx, which ended up boosting a response into low ms.
dylanz 15y ago
I worked with agentzh on a module at one point, and he was extremely helpful in validating my ideas and helping me out. He answered all my questions by thorough example and explanation, which is why I'm excited that I saw this post. Hats off to agentzh!
riobard 15y ago
For those who don't know, agentzh and chaoslawful made these super-awesome tools around nginx to power Taobao, the largest e-commerce site in China. agentzh left Taobao to work fulltime on OpenResty now. Stay tuned for what's to come from them!
sycren 15y ago
Are there any tutorials on how to start a vps as a beginner from scratch? I mean in one place rather than looking for a tutorial in linux then another on apache or nginx and so on...
- msbarnett 15y ago
  There's http://library.linode.com/ http://library.linode.com/ But I'd highly suggest learning how to administer a Linux installation from the command line locally before you create a VPS and open yourself up to be hacked as you try to learn how to do everything.
pwf 15y ago
I was looking forward to learning nginx, until I read this... It's very nicely written and explains things well, but it doesn't so much teach nginx as it does point out all the contradictory and unexpected behaviors. That doesn't look fun to learn (or work with) at all. Edit: I just looked in to agentzh's other project OpenResty, and I take everything back. It may be difficult, but it's extremely powerful, and seemingly worth dealing with the 'gotchas'.
sparshgupta 15y ago
agentzh is a great mentor. He has helped me number of times, often looking at my configurations and getting into my systems and tweaking things around to make them work. He even installed the powerful openresty on one of my machines to demonstrate how it can solve my problems and did some benchmarks for me. Respect to agentzh!! cant wait to see it evolve from here

255 points by freestyler 15y ago

freestyler 15y ago

The source repository is here https://github.com/agentzh/nginx-tutorials https://github.com/agentzh/nginx-tutorials

chc 15y ago
Strangely, even though it has a public Github repository, you're not allowed to copy it according to agentzh's copyright notice.

mrspandex 15y ago

That font is almost impossible to read.

yaoweibin 15y ago
yes, this is the geek style :).
pavelkaroukin 15y ago
Fix your browser/OS default font settings. This page have 0 styling and page with 0 styling should look perfect on your screen if you have everything configured correctly.
- 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
  That page declares lang="zh" in the html tag. So it's probably not using the default font for Western or Unicode, but whatever the browser maps to Simplified Chinese. In my case that was much uglier, and I had to fix it to read the page.
  - pavelkaroukin 15y ago
    I see this as valid reason. Although, did not see difference on ubuntu and windows. What browser + OS you use? While this is a reasonable explanation, I see many cases where system fonts set wrong and as a result an unstyled page look terrible.
    - 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
      > What browser + OS you use? I saw the problem with Firefox 10 on CentOS. My default font was specifically configured to Bitstream Vera Serif. Setting the default font in the Preferences seems to only change it for the encoding in the active tab (unless you go into the Advanced dialog). For several Asian languages it wanted to use "serif", which appears to be the 20-year-old X11 default version.
      - deleted 15y ago
        [deleted]
  - obtu 15y ago
    Looks good on firefox/ubuntu. It's strange that there's a browser using the lang tag for this; as I understand it web pages create a font spec according to style attributes and not lang tags, and fontconfig would only substitute fonts for a range of actual chinese characters if the preferred matching font didn't cover that range.
  - agentzh 15y ago
    Thank you for pointing this out. I've just fixed the lang attribute of the html tag. It is "en" now :)
- donpark 15y ago
  Problem is that 'should look perfect' doesn't match reality. The page is hard to read on Mac using unmodified Firefox.

G_will 15y ago

Awesome!!! & Niu Bi!!!

zhaoyao 15y ago

God of manong!

themcgruff 15y ago

There's two of us at 37signals building projects on top of the HttpLua / ngx_lua module. The OpenResty (http://www.openresty.org http://www.openresty.org) project is absolutely worth a look if you are willing to live on the edge and you wan't incredibly fast performance. I can't say enough good things about the work agentzh and chaoslawful have been up to lately -- just check out their Github profiles.

minikomi 15y ago
I really like lua and have been lookin at getting my hands dirty with this.. Sounds like I have my weekend planned then!
silasb 15y ago
Yep, awesome project. I have used this to make a mini-heroku. Only problem is that it is http 1.0 and not 1.1.
end_guy 15y ago
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.

wildmXranat 15y ago

His and chaoslawful's github projects are worth taking a look at. I slapped on a Lua scripted cache layer on top of Nginx, which ended up boosting a response into low ms.

dylanz 15y ago

I worked with agentzh on a module at one point, and he was extremely helpful in validating my ideas and helping me out. He answered all my questions by thorough example and explanation, which is why I'm excited that I saw this post. Hats off to agentzh!

riobard 15y ago

For those who don't know, agentzh and chaoslawful made these super-awesome tools around nginx to power Taobao, the largest e-commerce site in China. agentzh left Taobao to work fulltime on OpenResty now. Stay tuned for what's to come from them!

sycren 15y ago

Are there any tutorials on how to start a vps as a beginner from scratch? I mean in one place rather than looking for a tutorial in linux then another on apache or nginx and so on...

msbarnett 15y ago
There's http://library.linode.com/ http://library.linode.com/ But I'd highly suggest learning how to administer a Linux installation from the command line locally before you create a VPS and open yourself up to be hacked as you try to learn how to do everything.

pwf 15y ago

I was looking forward to learning nginx, until I read this... It's very nicely written and explains things well, but it doesn't so much teach nginx as it does point out all the contradictory and unexpected behaviors. That doesn't look fun to learn (or work with) at all. Edit: I just looked in to agentzh's other project OpenResty, and I take everything back. It may be difficult, but it's extremely powerful, and seemingly worth dealing with the 'gotchas'.

sparshgupta 15y ago

agentzh is a great mentor. He has helped me number of times, often looking at my configurations and getting into my systems and tweaking things around to make them work. He even installed the powerful openresty on one of my machines to demonstrate how it can solve my problems and did some benchmarks for me. Respect to agentzh!! cant wait to see it evolve from here