Using nginx as HTTP load balancer Load balancing methods

Setting up hashes To quickly process static sets of data such as server names, map directive’s values,

Connection processing methods nginx supports a variety of connection processing methods. The availability of a particular method depends on the platform used. On platforms that support several

Server names Wildcard names

How nginx processes a request How to prevent processing requests

A debugging log Debugging log for selected clients

Configuration file measurement units Sizes can be specified in bytes, kilobytes (suffixes k and K) or megabytes (suffixes m and M), for example

Controlling nginx Changing Configuration

Logging to syslog The error_log and

Command-line parameters nginx supports the following command-line parameters: -? | -h — print help for command-line parameters.