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magiccyril
magiccyril

Reputation: 657

Which web server should I use ? Apache vs Lighthttpd vs nginx

Could you help me to choose a webserver. I would like to change my Apache installation on a cloud server. I'm using PHP, Node.js and maybe one day Python.

Which one of Apache, Ligthttpd and nginx is the simplest to configure for my use ?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3210

Answers (1)

Marco
Marco

Reputation: 4395

If you intend to run Node.js alongside PHP on the same platform, I would suggest looking into using nginx as a reverse proxy.

There are several advantages to this setup..

  • Although nginx is fully capable of handling php requests via fastcgi, but Apache + mod_php is simpler to configure in my personal opinion.

  • EngineX is superb at serving static files, it requires far less memory than Apache thus allowing you to rely on Apache only for dynamic PHP requests.

  • Provided you are running some flavor of linux, you can install both Apache and nginx through a package manager and avoid dealing with source unless you want to.

  • Node.js can run as an upstream server through nginx so you would be able to run all 3 servers at the same time.

I have never tried implementing Python via nginx so I have no experience with it, but given how efficient nginx as a reverse proxy, you can throw a Python server on a different port and simply add another upstream server to your nginx configuration with barely any effort.

Upvotes: 6

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