[nginx] SSL support and setup

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 04:53:04PM +0100, Thomas wrote:

> >From the SSL module documentation page:
> http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpSslModule
> 
> it is recommended to run one worker process only and to enable
> keep-alive connections.
> 
> 
> However often for serving Rails applications, I see 3 to 5 (probably
> more) worker processes in the configuration files. As this must be set
> for an nginx process, does this mean, that it is better to have 2
> running processes? One for normal HTTP listening on port80 with 5
> worker processes, and another one listening on port 443 with 1 worker
> process?
> 
> How do you setup your single server for SSL and non SSL requests?

Since introducing shared ssl_session_cache you should use worker_processes
equals to CPU numbers. Also SSL keep-alive connections take about 100K
per idle connection, so you may disable them.

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