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On this page we will prepare the migration from Apache to nginx. 

We will start with gathering our requirements and use-cases. Then we will look at nginx to see whether they can be fulfilled and how it is done.

== Requirements ==

=== Hard Requirements ===

* hosting multiple websites using IP-based virtual hosting
* IPv4 and IPv6
* http and https
* a huge number of URL rewriting rules is used by the Stendhal Webframework
* logfiles for each combination of website, protocol, day
* PHP5 with APC
* Proxy-Support for Jenkins

=== Soft Requirements ===

* SPDY-support

== nginx Configuration ==

* [http://kovyrin.net/2010/01/16/enabling-ipv6-support-in-nginx/ IPv6 configuration] Ubuntu package supports IPv6 without recompilation
* [http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpSslModule SSL configuration]. Important: Intermediate certificates have to be concatenated into the server certificate file.
* [http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/converting_rewrite_rules.html Converting Rewriting Rules], [http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule rewriting configuration]
* [http://serverfault.com/questions/65118/proper-way-to-rotate-nginx-logs log-rotation configuration]
* [http://interfacelab.com/nginx-php-fpm-apc-awesome/ PHP-FPM configuration]