Andrey<div><br></div><div>thanks for your response and great nice work!! <br><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>M</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Andrey Belov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:defan@nginx.com">defan@nginx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Martin,</div><br><div><div class="im"><div>On Jan 11, 2012, at 7:31 PM, Martin Loy wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite">Would you explain the main difference between using your module and using nginx as a reverse proxy and caching static content ?</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><div>In some situations, mod_aclr2 helps to avoid excessive disk I/O,</div>
<div>especially for big static responses.</div><div><br></div><div>When nginx is used as a local reverse proxy and proxy_buffering is</div><div>enabled, every upstream reponse which can not fit into proxy buffers</div><div>
may be temporarily saved on disk:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_buffering" target="_blank">http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_buffering</a></div>
<div><a href="http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_temp_path" target="_blank">http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_temp_path</a></div><div><br></div><div>For example, we have to process the request for 700mb video file,</div>
<div>without mod_aclr2:</div><div><br></div><div>1) nginx sends the request to apache</div><div>2) apache sends 700mb file back to nginx</div><div>3) nginx saves received file on disk (proxy_temp_path) and</div><div>starts sending it back to the client</div>
<div><br></div><div>and with mod_aclr2:</div><div><br></div><div>1) nginx sends the request to apache</div><div>2) apache sends a few bytes header with X-Accel-Redirect back to nginx</div><div>3) nginx starts sending the file directly from disk</div>
<div><br></div><div>You save your time and your disk at step #2.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, you also may use proxy_cache along with mod_aclr2,</div><div>but if your disks are fast enough, probably you won't need</div>
<div>to do any caching at all.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps.</div></div><div class="im"><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>M<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:54 AM, António P. P. Almeida <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:appa@perusio.net" target="_blank">appa@perusio.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On 11 Jan 2012 13h17 WET, <a href="mailto:defan@nginx.com" target="_blank">defan@nginx.com</a> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hello!<br>
><br>
> Ever wondered how to set up NGINX as a local proxy for Apache 2.x<br>
> with minimum efforts?<br>
<br>
</div>Nice work Andrey. Opens up Nginx as a possibility for shared hosting<br>
(keep using .htaccess) and voids any resistance people might have trying<br>
Nginx out. It's sooo easy now :)<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<font color="#888888">--- appa<br>
</font><div><div></div><div><br>
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