Posts Tagged “Nginx”

A cache directory is a temporary directory

WOAH! Do not put symlinks to your uploaded files in a temporary cache directory. Nginx users running WordPress should beware if they followed these instructions and put a symlink to uploaded files in the wp-content/cache/ directory. I’m going to rewrite that page right now suggesting they use a different directory, possibly wp-content/uploads/ or maybe wp-content/files/. [...]

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WordPress, Nginx and WP Super Cache

If you host your own WordPress blog, it’s probably on Apache. That all fine and good. For most sites Apache works wonderfully, especially as it’s so easy to find information on it, on mod_rewrite and everything else that everyone else uses. One of the alternatives is Nginx, a really fast webserver that streaks ahead of [...]

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Holy Shmoly! is Stephen Fry proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache