Letsencrypt: Free SSL Certificates for NGINX
I always wanted all of my sites to run over SSL, but it also didn’t seem worth the expense of buying certificates for all the domains I own. Enter Let’s Encrypt which offers free...
Tagged: NGINX
Dynamically Update /etc/hosts from NGINX
I wanted to guarantee that requests coming from one of my servers going to a domain they host are routed to localhost. The solution I arrived at was to generate a list of domains...
NGINX Reverse Proxy to Legacy Website
NGINX reverse proxies can be a very powerful tool for many reasons and recently came to the rescue as I was at a loss as to how to provide access to a legacy website when...
GoDaddy SSL Certificates on NGINX
To properly install a GoDaddy SSL certificate on an NGINX install, you will need to include the gd_intermediate.crt and gd_bundle.crt the SSL certificate file for your server. The location of this file can be...
“It appears Minify URL rewriting is not working” in W3TC + NGINX: w3tc_rewrite_test
I am running WordPress on NGINX and using W3TC for caching, however I was consistently getting the error “It appears Minify URL rewriting is not working” in the WordPress admin. After inspecting the code...
502 Bad Gateway on NGINX with BuddyPress
I recently switched over from Apache to NGINX for my WordPress hosting, and it was surprisingly easier than I expected. Alongside the W3 Total Cache plugin to handle my minification and object/db caching my...
