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@Tal,
In terms of performance an unmanaged VPS will be better than a managed one. A Managed VPS will almost always come with CPanel which is great for shared hosting and for hosting companies to easily manage your VPS for you.
You can still install any of the Opcode caching tools (APC, eAccelerator, XCache, MemCached) on a managed VPS with CPanel but ...
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Souljacker,
I would first take a look at your plugins. Star Ratings for Reviews hasn't been updated for over 3 years and looks like its real heavy on the db. I saw some raw sql with some INNER JOINS that look troublesome.
On the server side you should implement some object caching. APC is the defacto standard and will give you the best results.
Once ...
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This also assumes .htaccess files are enabled in Apache, which almost always is in shared hosting, but is often disabled in enterprise environments. One way to accomplish this would be to write your own add_external_nginx_rule function that writes redirets out to a file (could use .htaccess even, though that might be confusing - it should be a hidden file ...
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I unfortnately have no experience with this but evidently it can be done as these articles and plugins address some of the issues:
HOWTO: Install WordPress On Nginx
WordPress + nginx Compatibility Plugin
Howto nginx + wordpress + ubuntu shortest setup
Nginx front-end proxy cache for WordPress
WordPress Pretty Permalinks with Nginx
WordPress, Nginx and WP ...
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So any suggestions are welcomed.
Suggestion #1 - Whenever Memcache is available in the server, I prefer Memcached Object Cache and Batcache, unless I have a specific reason to use W3 Total Cache. Whatever, W3 Total Cache offers, can be achieved without it too. For example, for minify, we have Better WP Minify, For Varnish, there is WordPress Varnish. ...
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You need to set the path to your .conf file in the plugin general options then let W3 Total write to the file.
I would create a w3-total.conf file in /etc/nginx then chown it www-data:www-data so w3 can write to it then add it as an include in your server file.
Update:
To answer your additional questions. If all your sites are using the same W3 Total ...
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The correct Nginx rewrite rules for WordPress are:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}
This sends everything through index.php and keeps the appended query string intact.
If your running PHP-FPM you should also add this before your fastcgi_params as a security measure:
location ~ \.php {
try_files $uri ...
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Take a look here: Performance tips for a large user base - it's a useful set of things to look at that go beyond just Apache.
When looking to optimise performance, it's pretty important to look at the entire infrastructure to see where you might have issues - for example one of of my sites I eventually traced an issue that initially looked like an Apache ...
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When you use W3TC with Nginx, it wants to write a nginx.conf file into your server root, do you have that file in place, writable by the nginx user?
Also, did you add an include directive in your primary nginx config to pull that file in?
For example, in my /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/dougal.gunters.org config file, I've got include ...
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Both servers are listening to the same port. You have Nginx set to listen to 80 and nothing is set for Apache unless it's in your ports.conf.
Your also proxy passing to Apache port 80 in your Nginx conf.
In the Nginx conf change
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:80;
to
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9000;
change listen XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80; to listen 80;
In ...
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From what I've seen on the market, Nginx and Cherokee are pretty interchangeable for what you're doing. If you've already got things set up on Nginx ... there's no reason to switch to a different system.
But if you want some benchmarks ... I did a quick Google search and came up with these:
http://blog.mudy.info/2009/02/nginx-vs-cherokee/
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Is WordPress configured to use www or without www? Your server seems to be listening only for the www version and tries to redirect non-www requests to the www version.
Considering that you provided a link to the non-www version of the domain above, my guess is that WordPress is trying to hook on to http://compassionpit.com, but your server redirects those ...
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"squat" is synonymous with "nothing" in this case. So, I'd say:
Before you consider using nginx, be aware that PHP APC or a similar
opcode cache with a WordPress caching plugin is going to offer
significant performance improvements over just switching from Apache
to nginx.
If you aren't already using a PHP opcode cache and WordPress
caching ...
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Sometimes a plugin changes WordPress' internal rewrite rules during an update, an installation or deactivation. If the plugin's update happens to run after your taxonomy registration it may just wipe out the custom rules for the taxonomy.
To inspect the currently active rewrite rules use the plugin Monkeyman Rewrite Analyzer. See this answer for details.
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Remove the 'fastcgi_intercept_errors' argument from you configuration. It's unnecessary since 'error_page' declares 404 errors, which should be handled by index.php, which will trigger PHP-FPM to handle it, and WordPress to present your theme's 404 page.
It seems counter-intuitive, but 'fastcgi_intercept_errors' is actually causing PHP not to handle the ...
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Anchor will setup apache or nginx for me - but which should I choose?!
Based on your concerns, I'd recommend Nginx -> Apache stack.
Please let me explain. By default, Nginx can only process static content, such as images, CSS and JS files. Nginx passes PHP requests to PHP-FPM or to other servers such as Apache. Nginx can still cache dynamic content ...
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First of all, this isn't a WordPress issue - it's a Memcache issue - and if not for the open bounty, I'd close it as off-topic.
Seconds, if your problem is with Memcache serving old content, then it sounds like you need to flush Memcache.
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Place this code in your functions.php file
add_filter( 'got_rewrite', '__return_true', 999 );
Update:
got_mod_rewrite() function checks whether the current server is apache or not using apache_mod_loaded() function. Since we are using nginx it returns false. So wordpress adds index.php in the url.
By using got_rewrite filter we are telling wordpress ...
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The problem likely has to do with the server settings in Nginx for your blog. It's likely that the location rules for /blog/ are wrong, specifically try_files. It should look like this:
location /blog/ {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
This tells Nginx the order in which it should try to find the requested resource. It will first ...
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Create a file specifically for W3 Total Cache configuration for your site, in a location Nginx/PHP-FPM can write to. Include this file in your site's Nginx server configuration. Then on the General Settings page, under Miscellaneous provide the full path to this file in the "Nginx server configuration file path" field. W3TC will then know to write any ...
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Correct rewrite rules for wordpress.conf are:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}
but the main issue was location. I misread at Dreamhost's wiki where I had to put this wordpress.conf. An awesome lady at Dreamhost explained it to me. I am very grateful for her telling me this oversight! With Dreamhost it has to be ...
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NGINX has a lot of appeal and potentially could have some benefit professionally (though I don't know what you do).
That said, with NGINX you will definitely have a harder time with maintaining WordPress, due to plugin conflicts, caching and even permalinks not working.
If you're up for that ... then go for NGINX. You could even blog about it and help add ...
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I notice a couple of things right off the bat.
First, the try_files parameter in your root location block should be:
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
Also, I have this block in my own conf file (using Nginx and Redirection together just fine) but you seem to be missing it:
location @wp {
rewrite ^/files(.*) /wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 ...
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If I use Apache & ngnix together will I have fewer problems?
Yes, of course.
Please be sure to install and setup mod_rpaf in Apache, if you are going to setup Nginx as reverse proxy to Apache.
I was wondering if I used Apache and Nginx together, with nginx
serving static files, apache php would I get both performance and
compatibility?
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wp_schedule_event is only run when your site is visited and the scheduled time has past. If varnish is serving a non expired cached page then your visitor is not hitting WordPress.
Schedules a hook which will be executed by the WordPress actions core
on a specific interval, specified by you. The action will trigger when
someone visits your WordPress ...
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For the multiple sites to work you need to give each a separate server entry. Think of it the same way Apache vhosts work.
You need to specify a document root and server name for each domain or use the $host alias. It is also a good idea to create a hosts file entry on your local machine to correspond with each domain name so this: ...
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It isn't working because Nginx tries to serve the permalink as a static file. At the moment the current configuration doesn't allow HTML files to be passed to Apache. Please remove the "html" part from the following block so that the permalinks are passed to Apache...
location ~* .(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|wmv|avi|mpg|mpeg|mp4|htm|html|js|css)$ { root ...
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If you are still looking for a solution, your nginx configuration should look like this in order to achieve what you described...
server {
listen 80;
server_name yourdomain.com
root /path/to/yourdomain.com;
index index.php index.html;
location / {
# directives to handle static site
}
location /sub {
# directives to handle WordPress
...
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The Nginx Multisite method outlined below has been tested and will work for subdomain Multisite installs and will also work with the domain mapping plugin.
To simplify the process of making future changes the server files are organized into 3 separate files. The first is nginx.conf which holds the basic configuration and tells the server where to find the ...
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There's a post here that's very good about load optimization and performance:
Steps to Optimize WordPress in Regard to Server Load?
It might be a good idea to also utilize a CDN for a majority of your page requests.
If you want performance you'll have to minimize requests to your database and setup aggressive caching.
Working with Drupal i know this can ...
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