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Upgrading Nginx on Raring Ringtail

I have have added ppa:nginx/stable to my apt sources. And have done an update. But when i try to upgrade, it fails to upgrade. Here are the list of commands. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable ...
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hiphop, nginx, spdy

I'm about a month young at linux and brand new to ubuntu. I can do this to install hiphop https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/Building-and-installing-HHVM-on-Ubuntu-12.04 (I installed ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 server stops responding after some time

My Ubuntu virtual server always stops responding after being online for several hours. It isn't pingable, SSH, FTP, NGINX, etc stop responding. However, when I login with with my VNC client, after it ...
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NginX access configuration

I'm using ubuntu x64 server with nginx as webserver. In my company, we configured intranet (local) dns server so that, when you enter domain1.com, it goes directly into defined LAN ip adress. We ...
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Setting up Mail server on Ubuntu 12.04.2 Server

Based on this article http://iain.it/linux/how-to-install-php-fpm-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-12-04 I've built my LEMP web server. I need one more function to work: mail. It's production server and I can't ...
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exec(): Unable to fork error on nginx error log

I am getting this error from tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log 2013/05/02 05:36:58 [error] 720#0: *90 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Warning: exec(): Unable to fork [which ...
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What is wrong my nginx install script? (Ubuntu Server 12.10)

I am trying to write a script to install, configure, an init nginx on ubuntu server. I have installed zlib, openssl, pcre, and other supporting libs, as well as run apt-get update. I have tried ...
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Nginx not running after upgrading to 13.04 [closed]

I upgraded from 12.04 -> 12.10 -> 13.04 today. All happy working nginx stopped working after this. The error message I am getting when I am trying to run is this - nginx: [alert] version 1.2.6 ...
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How to set-up Nginx correctly? “Welcome to nginx” is not displayed

I installed Nginx on my Ubuntu Server 12.10 using this instructions https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-nginx-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts-precise-pangolin , the Nginx was installed ...
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How to install Nginx with mod_security on Ubuntu 12.04

After doing a lot of research, I have not been able to find proper instructions on how to install or compile Nginx with mod_security on Ubuntu 12.04. Any suggestion of links will be very helpful. I ...
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Recompile Nginx with nginx-push-stream-module?

I've installed Nginx on Ubuntu with apt-get. Now i need to somehow add the module: Their install suggests to recompile Nginx with the module: ...
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Localhost always show Welcome to nginx!

I was working fine on my projects. After restarting my machine, I tried to access a local project and I get the message "Welcome to nginx!" even if I want to open phpmyadmin. What is the problem and ...
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Can Ubuntu Server be run through Ubuntu Desktop

I have both Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Desktop on a hard drive. But I was wondering if there is a way to have the server running while I am on the Desktop version? Does this make sense?
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Is nginx-extras supposed to have passenger compiled with it?

From the way the Launchpad description reads, the nginx-extras package should have the Passenger module installed with it. However, when I install nginx-extras and try to enable Passenger, I get the ...
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How can I find out how nginx was “./configure”d for Ubuntu?

nginx is my web server of choice. It doesn't provide loadable module support as of yest, therefore everything has to be compiled and linked into the final binary. How can I find out which ...
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I deleted /etc/nginx by mistake. How to fix this?

I deleted etc/nginx by mistake and now i am stuck. I tried compiling by source and repository but didn't get it back. Some please help me asap to fix this problem. A detail explanation will be most ...
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Xampp is not running on ubuntu

I have nginx ,Apache2 ,Xampp installed on Ubuntu 12.04 Nginx is running on port 80 First I stopped Apache2 using /etc/init.d/apache2 stop Now I started Xampp using /opt/lampp/lampp restart I ...
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What is the easiest way to enable PHP on nginx?

What is the easiest way to enable PHP on nginx on Ubuntu 12.04? Best solution is the one that request minimal work, ideally just a package installation :)
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Can't pass PCI scans for vulnerability compliance SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS

I'm trying to pass a pci scan, I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 lts server and Nginx. I've tried everything I know and did a lot of research... apparently seems that need to disable a setting in OpenSSL which I ...
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+30 sites using 1gb ram on nginx

I have a LEMP setup (Ubuntu 12.04, Nginx, Mysql, PHP 5.3 and APC) and I have 30 sites hosted on it. They all are wordpress sites. It uses about 1GB RAM. Is this normal? I thought nginx would use less ...
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Nginx + fastcgi_cache for WordPress hosting

The tutorial for Nginx + WordPress + fastcgi_cache with conditional purging is fantastic, however if you're running a bit ahead of this tutorial Brian Mercer's PPA doesn't quite cut it as it needs ...
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deploy multiple wordpress sites with juju

This may seem like an obvious question, but can you deploy multiple (distinct) wordpress sites with their own databases etc? But using a single deployment? So not dedicated vm's for each sites ...
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Trying to start nginx on VPS, I get “nginx: unrecognized service”

Following the How to install rails and nginx with passenger on Ubuntu tutorial from DigitalOcean.com, the seventh step manually starts nginx: sudo service nginx start but fails with the following ...
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Install Joomla on NGINX in Ubuntu 12.04

I'm installing Joomla on NGINX and so far everything is going fine until I get to the page where is checks Pre-Installation parameters. It says Database Support : No I've already checked ...
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/etc/nginx is not recreated after reinstall

I issued sudo apt-get remove nginx --purge and I found /etc/nginx still exist so I manually removed that directory. Now after installing nginx, that directory is not recreated. What's the issue ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 Nginx and fastcgi-php not working

I have nginx successfully running on my home server. I dont have a .com specified because it is just a trial run until I get everything figured out. I can navigate to the server ip address and the ...
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nginx dependency problem trying to upgrade

Trying to upgrade my Ubuntu 12.04 vps I get the following error: henrik@neung:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade [sudo] password for henrik: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree ...
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After installing nginx with Passenger support in '/opt', why won't it start from 'init.d'?

I went through a tutorial http://craiccomputing.blogspot.com/2010/10/passenger-3-nginx-and-rvm-on-mac-os-x.html and everything was ok. There were no errors. Nginx with Passenger support was ...
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Nginx + Drizzle + Mysql + PHP

Trying to connect nGinX with Drizzle to upstream mysql "drizzle_server" in config file of nGinX. But every time i install it it has "unknown directive" I tried: ...
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Starting LEMP server at startup

Based on this blog post I've installed LEMP server. Is there any easy way to add this web server: PHP-FPM, Nginx, MySQL into startup applications list?
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What is the best way to uninstall nginx [closed]

I'm trying to add new module to nginx with naxsi, but I should reinstall nginx. What is the better way of removing nginx?
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HTML5 websocket-support for NGINX

I need websockets in a project for HTML5 and PHP, but it don´t works. I read something about that NGINX is not supporting them. Is there a possibility to install a plugin that brings me the support ...
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Where can I change the webpage showed by apache?

I have ubuntu 10.10 installed, and when I hit my IP I see: It works! This is the default web page for this server. The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet. Where ...
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uwsgi can't find python plugin

I'm trying to deploy a python app to my Ubuntu 12.04.1 VPS running Nginx / uWSGI. I've setup my server following this guide. When I restart uWSGI I get this message: nickd@my-vps:~$ sudo ...
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Do I need duplicate values in NGINX [sites-available] configuration?

Do I need duplicate all new configuration entries (location = ... ) from #Part 1 to PART 2 in Nginx virtual-host configuration file? Eg.: FIRST PART of /etc/nginx/sites-available/mywebisteurl.com ...
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Why rewrite directive causes “301 Moved Permanently” with Nginx?

Below is a much simplified version of what I have in the configuration file of a server run by Nginx 1.2.5, yet it causes 301 Moved Permanently with Location: http://example.com/phpmyadmin/ before ...
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How to move over from init.d to upstart for nginx

I have an init.d script for nginx that normally works fine. However, after a reboot it doesn't work properly and the worker process would die leaving just the master process. nginx has some mongodb ...
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PHP-FPM - Nginx - phpMyAdmin - 502 bad gateway

I have installed and configured PHP-FPM, Nginx, and then phpMyAdmin. When I access the main site everything works fine but as soon as I go to http://mysite.com/phpmyadmin I get a 502 bad gateway ...
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How to configure nginx for Wordpress

I've installed everything that is needed by Wordpress i.e. nginx 1.2.5 (built from source on /usr/local/nginx), php-fpm with other php packages and mysql via apt-get. I downloaded wordpress-3.4.2.zip ...
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Why Nginx development version on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and not Stable version?

I am having ubuntu 12.04 64 bit running with nginx 1.1.19 as per nginx release 1.1.19 is a development release.So why do ubuntu LTS shipped with development release rather than stable release.
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How do I upgrade to nginx 1.2.0?

Running Ubuntu 11.04 with nginx 0.8.4 how do I upgrade to stable (1.2.0) without screwing my whole setup (multiple sites + varnish + php-fpm + memcache)?
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check what process was causing the problem of high cpu load

I'm running nginx wordpress server in KVM using 12.04 server x86. It was running very well about 4 month until 2 hours ago. I found that my website is down and no ping response. Virt-manager logged ...
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Nginx and automatic updates

I'm on Ubuntu 12.04.1 with unattended-upgrades configured for automatic security updates, and I installed Nginx by first adding deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ lucid nginx deb-src ...
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Setting up my www directory correctly

I'm quite new to Ubuntu and Linux in general. I need to create a my www directory (in /home) and set the permissions/ownership correctly so that any new files and directories created by myself (via ...
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reliably restarting services using upstart or runit

I want to reliably restart my app and web server processes on crash. If I understand correctly, runit starts every service as a child process. If the child process crashes this sends a signal to the ...
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apache + nginx(for only one subdomain)

I have a nice little Server with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Apache controlled by plesk. Now I've installed nginx for my Gitlab subdomain. But now nginx wants to control all. How can I configure the nginx ...
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Will my nginx reverse proxy cache work?

I have a website running Nginx and Apache Apache deals with PHP files, and Nginx the html static files We have now changed the site so there are no html static files, only PHP files and this has ...
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warning on nginx auto start disable

I removed nginx from startup by running: $ sudo update-rc.d -f nginx disable I get the below output: update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) ...
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Nginx and directory list doesn't work:

I have done just as in the tutorials but is simply not working: server { location /abc { autoindex on; root /home/user/abc/; } } It gives me 403 Forbidden, what I'm ...
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I upgraded my server to 12.10, why does PHP not work with nginx?

I upgraded and now I can't use my nginx's proxy_pass arguments on my Ubuntu server to work with PHP. I keep getting 502 Bad Gateway errors. Why is this, and how do I fix this?

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