Will Plesk 10.4.4 work with Nginx instead of Apache?

[AlexKerr]

Hi all,

Got Plesk 10.4.4 running on a VPS with CentOS 5. Can I somehow completely swap out Apache and replace with Nginx webserver?

Or does Apache HAVE to remain running and I can only use Nginx as static content server?

If yes to either of those, are there any instructions anywhere please, relevant to Plesk 10?

Many Thanks,
Alex

 

[Frater]

I can't imagine Plesk to have nginx support and if they did it would be in their specs.

You can install nginx as a reverse proxy.
I would leave the settings of Plesk alone in that case.

With iptables you can redirect traffic going to port 80 to the nginx-proxy.
You also need to install mod_rpaf to get the original IP in your logs.

I'm running varnish and pound myself.

 

[AlexKerr]

> I can't imagine Plesk to have nginx support and if they did it would be in their specs.

Parallels have just partnered with NGinx actually to fully support it in Plesk 11: http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/nginx-open-source-web-server-partners-with-parallels-hosting.html

Thank you for the other advice!

Can anyone offer more explicit details of integrating Plesk 10.4.4 with NGinx please?

 

[Frater]

http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=208844

 

[AlexKerr]

Thank you but that describes how to install Varnish with Plesk 10.3

I want to know about Nginx - something completely different!

 

[Frater]

different, but not completely different.
They are both caching reverse proxies.....
I thought you were still interested in using it as such.

If you want Nginx as a replacement for Apache then I think you need to wait for that version 11
It needs a complete overhaul of all the scripts that is in fact Plesk.

Don't expect the first versions to work properly....