HTTP

Basics

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Httpd
• http://httpstatus.es/

• http://accs-net.com/hosts/hostsforlinux.html
• http://hosts-file.net/

• HTTPie is a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

• httpbin(1) - HTTP Request & Response Service

Servers

Nginx

• http://nginx.org/
• http://www.aosabook.org/en/nginx.html

• Resources

• Configuration
• FullExample
• HttpRewriteModule - rewriting urls
• HttpAuthBasicModule - for directory passwords
• Pitfalls

Site folder location can vary.

/var/www
  debian
/etc/nginx/html
  arch linux

Site setup

Create 'Server Block' (vhost) config file in

/etc/nginx/sites-available

and later ln -s them in

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled

• ServerBlockExample - Basic examples
• FcgiExample - FastCGI example. Keep seperate and include.
• http://wiki.nginx.org/Wordpress
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PhpMyAdmin#NGINX_Configuration

Enable logging in vhost conf;

error_log /var/log/nginx-vhostnamehere.log error;

• http://agentzh.org/misc/nginx/agentzh-nginx-tutorials-enuk.html

Tools

• https://github.com/perusio/nginx_ensite - nginx_ensite and nginx_dissite for quick virtual host enabling and disabling

• http://www.anilcetin.com/convert-apache-htaccess-to-nginx/

Apache

• Apache HTTP Server

• Stupid htaccess Tricks

Other

• http://monkey-project.com/

Security

• OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers part 9: Insufficient Transport Layer Protection - Touching on HTTPS, SSL and TLS

Performance

• http://stevesouders.com/efws/
• http://www.portent.com/blog/design-dev/how-we-made-portent-com-really-freaking-fast.htm

• http://thomashunter.name/blog/a-primer-on-web-caching/

• https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/caching#LeverageBrowserCaching

• http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/

• http://blitz.io/
• http://serverfault.com/questions/350062/the-strange-case-of-mr-time-to-first-byte

• https://www.varnish-cache.org/