Migrating from Apache to nginx

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

• IPv6 configuration Ubuntu package supports IPv6 without recompilation
• SSL configuration. Important: Intermediate certificates have to be concatenated into the server certificate file.
• Converting Rewriting Rules, rewriting configuration
• log-rotation configuration
• PHP-FPM configuration