Installing WordPress with NGINX Unit WordPress is one of the most popular open source content management systems today, used by more than 30% of all websites to host online web applications. WordPress is written in PHP, and both PHP and WordPress can run on NGINX Unit, the new dynamic application server from NGINX, Inc. Formerly, deploying WordPress with NGINX required the use of a separate application server, such as Apache or PHP‑FPM. NGINX Unit is more flexible, supporting Go, Perl, Python, and Ruby along with PHP. With NGINX Unit, you set up and make changes to your application server dynamically – without service disruption or configuration reloads – using the RESTful JSON API. This makes hands‑on management easier, and also makes it much easier to automate some or all of your management tasks. In this blog post, we describe how to set up WordPress on a [ more… ]