Mod_aclr2

Server NGINX
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Hello!

Ever wondered how to set up NGINX as a local proxy for Apache 2.x with
minimum efforts?

Check out this module:

Feedback is welcome!

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Thank You Andrey.

Regards,
Joe

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On 11 Jan 2012 13h17 WET, [email protected] wrote:

Hello!

Ever wondered how to set up NGINX as a local proxy for Apache 2.x
with minimum efforts?

Nice work Andrey. Opens up Nginx as a possibility for shared hosting
(keep using .htaccess) and voids any resistance people might have trying
Nginx out. It’s sooo easy now :slight_smile:

Thanks,
— appa

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Would you explain the main difference between using your module and
using
nginx as a reverse proxy and caching static content ?

Regards

M

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use ramdisktmpfs

2012-1-122:09Andrey B. [email protected] д

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Martin,

On Jan 11, 2012, at 7:31 PM, Martin Loy wrote:

Would you explain the main difference between using your module and using nginx
as a reverse proxy and caching static content ?

In some situations, mod_aclr2 helps to avoid excessive disk I/O,
especially for big static responses.

When nginx is used as a local reverse proxy and proxy_buffering is
enabled, every upstream reponse which can not fit into proxy buffers
may be temporarily saved on disk:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_buffering
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_temp_path

For example, we have to process the request for 700mb video file,
without mod_aclr2:

  1. nginx sends the request to apache
  2. apache sends 700mb file back to nginx
  3. nginx saves received file on disk (proxy_temp_path) and
    starts sending it back to the client

and with mod_aclr2:

  1. nginx sends the request to apache
  2. apache sends a few bytes header with X-Accel-Redirect back to nginx
  3. nginx starts sending the file directly from disk

You save your time and your disk at step #2.

Of course, you also may use proxy_cache along with mod_aclr2,
but if your disks are fast enough, probably you won’t need
to do any caching at all.

Hope this helps.

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Andrey

thanks for your response and great nice work!!

Regards

M