Nginx on sugar, spice, &terminal? nice

Matching socks: Nginx + php = Wordpress (Part 3)

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 11:01:09 +0000

Part 1: Wordpress hosting, docker style
Part 2: Cron + LetsEncrypt, docker style
Part 3: Matching socks: Nginx + php = Wordpress

Previously, we’ve covered terminating SSL connections and running cron jobs. Now it’s time to actually set up a wordpress installation. The two main ingredients are a web server, and a php server. All requests go through the web server (nginx, again in this case). If the filepath ends in a .php extension, then the request gets forwarded to the php-fpm (basically php with a FastCGI implementation) to do the server-side processing.

Wordpress hosting, docker style (Part 1)

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 07:07:32 +0000

A whale, coming out of the water

Part 1: Wordpress hosting, docker style
Part 2: Cron + LetsEncrypt, docker style
Part 3: Matching socks: Nginx + php = Wordpress

Those segfaults I mentioned? Yeah, they proved unsolvable. Nginx Unit seems to be having a rough time and un-extracting Nginx Unit from the install script was more difficult than expected too.

Instead, I spent more time than that setting up my own cluster of docker containers. The benefit is that I can now run a whole copy locally, test changes, and then push to production. It also allows me to track what changes to all the various .conf files I’ve been making. Today, I’ll talk about setting up a SSL-terminating reverse-proxy, and how to host it with docker-compose.

Wordpress hosting from scratch

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:58:43 +0000

Alternative title: Why it’s worth it to pay for wordpress hosting.
Alternative title 2: Why is Ansible so complicated?

I have no idea why someone would scan the outside of a PSU, but it makes for a segue to this lede - which promises to be the best part of this post:

Just your typical barcode jam sesh