由于rails的逐渐流行,各种的web服务器也逐渐开始流行起来,搜集点nginx的资料:

nginx的wiki: http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxChs

Nginx ("engine x") 是一个高性能的 HTTP 和 反向代理 服务器，也是一个 IMAP/POP3/SMTP 代理服务器。 Nginx 是由 Igor Sysoev 为俄罗斯访问量第二的 Rambler.ru 站点开发的，它已经在该站点运行超过两年半了。Igor 将源代码以类BSD许可证的形式发布。尽管还是测试版，但是，Nginx 已经因为它的稳定性、丰富的功能集、示例配置文件和低系统资源的消耗而闻名了。

因 为 Nginx 的文档大部分是俄文的，本维基的目的是帮助使用中文世界的用户安装、配置和交换有关 Nginx 的使用经验。大部分文档源自Aleksandar Lazic 的工作。有关本维基本身的问题请直接询问Cliff Wells 。

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官方说明: http://nginx.net/

Basic HTTP features:

• Handling of static files, index files, and autoindexing; open file descriptor cache;
• Accelerated reverse proxying without caching; simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
• Accelerated support without caching of remote FastCGI servers; simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
• Modular architecture. Filters include gzipping, byte ranges, chunked responses, and SSI. Multiple SSI inclusions within a single page can be processed in parallel if they are handled by FastCGI or proxied servers.
• SSL and TLS SNI support.

Mail proxy server features:

• User redirection to IMAP/POP3 backend using an external HTTP authentication server;
• User authentication using an external HTTP authentication server and connection redirection to internal SMTP backend;
• Authentication methods:
  • POP3: USER/PASS, APOP, AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5;
  • IMAP: LOGIN, AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5;
  • SMTP: AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5;
• SSL support;
• STARTTLS and STLS support.

Tested OS and platforms:

• FreeBSD 3 — 7 i386; FreeBSD 5 — 7 amd64;
• Linux 2.2 — 2.6 i386; Linux 2.6 amd64;
• Solaris 9 i386, sun4u; Solaris 10 i386, amd64, sun4v;
• MacOS X ppc, i386;

Architecture and scalability:

• one master process and several workers processes. The workers run as unprivileged user;
• kqueue (FreeBSD 4.1+), epoll (Linux 2.6+), rt signals (Linux 2.2.19+), /dev/poll (Solaris 7 11/99+), event ports (Solaris 10), select, and poll support;
• various kqueue features support including EV_CLEAR, EV_DISABLE (to disable event temporalily), NOTE_LOWAT, EV_EOF, number of available data, error codes;
• sendfile (FreeBSD 3.1+), sendfile (Linux 2.2+), sendfile64 (Linux 2.4.21+), and sendfilev (Solaris 8 7/01+) support;
• accept-filter (FreeBSD 4.1+) and TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT (Linux 2.4+) support;
• 10,000 inactive HTTP keep-alive connections take about 2.5M memory;
• data copy operations are kept to a minimum.

Other HTTP features:

• name- and IP-based virtual servers;
• keep-alive and pipelined connections support;
• flexible configuration;
• reconfiguration and online upgrade without interruption of the client processing;
• access log formats, bufferred writing, and quick log rotation;
• 4xx-5xx error codes redirection;
• rewrite module;
• access control based on client IP address and HTTP Basic authentication;
• PUT, DELETE, MKCOL, COPY and MOVE methods;
• FLV streaming;
• speed limitation;
• limitation of simultaneous connections from one address.

从网上的信息看nginx的性能还是非常强大,官方介绍里的特性有很多也是非常吸引人的,
rewrite, proxy的特性就不说了,还支持FLV streaming,做视频网站非常不错,可以结合Lighttpd.
其他的负载均衡能力好象也很强悍,据说超过了Pound,Apache mod_proxy_balancer.
另外静态文件的传输能力也超过了Lighttpd.不过好象国内使用的人还不是很多,在CU上搜了下没什么相关帖子
等有时间了做下实验,看看咋样~

这有几篇不错的文档,先把地址放这,做实验时用:)

https://calomel.org/nginx.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx

http://docs.planetargon.com/Nginx_Configuration/

http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/04/17/typical-nginx-configurations/