Articles by KENNETH

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… ]

Announcing NGINX Unit 1.0 Today, April 12th, marks a significant milestone in the development of NGINX Unit, our dynamic web and application server. Approximately 6 months after its first public release, we’re now happy to state that NGINX Unit is production-ready. NGINX Unit is our new open source initiative led by Igor Sysoev, creator of the original NGINX, which is now used by more than 409 million websites. “I set out to make an application server which will be remotely dynamically configured, and capable to switch dynamically from one language or application version to another.” explains Igor. “Dynamic configuration and switching, I saw as being certainly the main problem. People want to reconfigure servers without interrupting client processing.” NGINX Unit is dynamically configured using a REST API; there is no set configuration file. All configuration changes happen directly in memory. [ more… ]