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Configuring and compiling Nginx and PHP-FPM on Ubuntu for Magento, Part 3
01.03.2010 06:47PM by Evan Johnson
Web Development, e-Commerce
This is the 3rd and final article about installing Magento on Nginx with PHP-FPM. Part 1 is here, and Part 2 is here.
This part explains how I set up my public web directories, and how I did the Nginx configuration files for a Magento site. One of the tricky things about switching to Nginx from Apache is that Nginx does not use .htaccess files or the usual Apache...
Configuring and compiling Nginx and PHP-FPM on Ubuntu for Magento, Part 2
12.18.2009 05:17PM by Evan Johnson
Web Development, e-Commerce
This is the second part of my little guide to get Magento running on Nginx with PHP-FPM and APC. Check out Part 1 here and Part 3 here.
In this part, we compile PHP-FPM and get it working with the APC "Accelerator" cache for Nginx. The first step is to compile PHP-FPM. Some of this is taken almost verbatim from the FPM readme:
# aptitude install -y...Configuring and compiling Nginx and PHP-FPM on Ubuntu for Magento, Part 1
12.14.2009 07:08PM by Evan Johnson
Web Development, e-Commerce
So, Magento is a huge piece of modular and extensible PHP code. Each request takes a lot of CPU cycles and memory to kick out a Magento page. This means it is slow. The performance of Magento is a frequent complaint, and rightfully so: consumers won't wait around all day for an ecommerce store to load. They will bail out and try another store if a page doesn't load in...
Book Review: Magento Beginner's Guide
11.26.2009 07:05PM by Evan Johnson
e-Commerce
I was recently approached by [packt] Publishing to do a review of their book, the Magento Beginner’s Guide (by William Rice). I’ve been working with Magento a lot over the past year and blog about it here from time to time, so they figured I would be good to review it. After setting up, modifying and maintaining four Magento stores in the last 10 months I don’t feel...