Practical Nginx - The Zero to Hero Guide

What you'll learn

Learn core concepts of NGINX server and use it in practical projects
Learn to use Nginx as reverse proxy
Learn to use Nginx as web server

Requirements

Basic Knowledge of the Web and HTTP protocol is assumed
Basic Knowledge of Linux command line is required to complete the course

Description

Learn NGINX HTTP web server in this comprehensive easy to follow zero to hero guide!

NGINX is a powerful HTTP web server that also doubles as a reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server, making it an amazing web server to get your hands on. This high-performance server has become popular for offering stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. It is also one of the few servers that address the C10K problem.

The web server is already popular among bigwigs such as Netflix, Hulu, Airbnb, Heroku, and GitHub for its use of a more scalable event-driven (asynchronous) architecture compared to the common thread-based request handling system.

If you want to learn this amazing web server in a systematic way, well then you’ve come to the right place!

Our course has been designed with experts to help developers master NGINX by strengthening their fundamentals of web servers and learning the basics and advanced features of NGINX from scratch in a concise and practical approach using this course. The course will breakdown everything learners need to know about web servers and NGINX from scratch.

With the right combination of theory and practical, the course not only cover the fundamentals and basics, but will show you how to actually put those to use with numerous detailed examples that you can follow along with the instructor. At the end of this course, you will be able to install, configure and even deploy your own web servers.

Although, the course does not require you to have any prior knowledge of NGINX, it does assume that you do have a basic understanding about the web and HTTP Protocol and that you to know your way around Centos and Debian Linux distros.

This tutorial will start at the very beginning with a detailed introduction into webservers, where NGINX fits, as well as the difference between Apache and NGINX. From there you will learn how to install the server and configure it. The course will also cover different commands that you will need including directives, modules, context types, variables, etc.

You will then learn how to deploy your web server on a normal PC as well as on the cloud. That’s not all! The course also includes a section on learning the LEMP Stack and also the best tips and tricks, mistakes and common FAQs that people come across.

With this course under your belt, you won’t need any other resources to master NGINX and web servers. So, what are you waiting for? Enroll now and become a server sensei!

Who this course is for:

Students who want to learn NGINX and use it for their professional and personal projects will find this course very useful
System administrators looking to use NGINX to manage their infrastructure