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Monitoring PHP Applications with NGINX Amplify table.nginx-blog, table.nginx-blog th, table.nginx-blog td { border: 2px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; } table.nginx-blog { width: 100%; } table.nginx-blog th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td { padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td.center { text-align: center; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } Introduction PHP is consistently in the top five programming languages for the Web, and many websites are built on PHP applications like WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla. Every day, millions of developers create new applications or extensions to the existing ones using PHP. Monitoring a PHP application can be a daunting task. Logs should be checked, specialized settings should be implemented, and related metrics should be collected and well understood. It’s easy to [ more… ]

How to Add Wallarm to Protect Your NGINX Plus Installation Why a WAF? If you are developing applications based on a high‑performance application server such as NGINX Plus, you need to consider security implications, especially if your web application accepts requests from outside the company perimeter. A web application firewall (WAF) is a security module focused on applications themselves, providing highly granular and customizable logic for protecting both web applications and the underlying data. For example, many of the vulnerabilities a WAF protects from are common across many web applications. These types of vulnerabilities are well documented in Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and include SQL injection, cross‑site scripting, field/cookie validation, and others. Together, NGINX Plus and WAF: Inspect traffic at Layer 7 Protect web applications from OWASP vulnerabilities Can be configured with security rules based on signatures, specific to the web [ more… ]

HTTP/2 Theory and Practice in NGINX Stable, Part 1 td { padding-right: 10px; } Table of Contents 3:56 What Is HTTP/2? 4:24 What Was SPDY? 5:05 HTTP/2 Sample Object 5:25 Proxying Under HTTP/2: GET Method 7:06 Proxying Under HTTP/2: Load Balancing 7:39 Key Features: Binary Protocol 8:32 Key Features: No Head-of-Line Blocking 9:09 Key Features: Only One Connection 10:11 Key Features: Server Push 11:04 Key Features, Header Compression Good morning ladies and gentlemen. My name is Nathan. I work at a startup called StackPath. We are currently in a closed beta and will be exiting that within the next couple weeks and we will have our first major public product out at that point. I am what they call an aqui-hire. I was originally with a company called MaxCDN which was purchased, and so that’s where the bulk of this [ more… ]