Load balancing a great method to reduce latency, improve resource utilization and ultimately increase fault-tolerance. If you already use nginx as a reverse proxy, you can easily update your configuration to enable load balancing functionality for your application. This guide shows you how to configure nginx to forward requests to …

We recently updated our SSL certificate for futurestud.io. We decided to use AES256 for the new SSL certificate which requires a password for the .key file. At this point, we didn’t think of any problems with nginx. The nerve-racking part was waiting in secret! {{outline}} Problem: Nginx Asking …

A week ago we migrated our Future Studio homepage and blog to a new server. Besides, we reconfigured our apps to run with SSL on HTTPS. We use a Gandi Standard SSL certificate which has the problem that an intermediate certificate is required to omit certificate errors on every browser …

Using SSL certificates may cause problems with the certificate chain on older or mobile browsers. The steps below show you how to create a complete certificate from your existing one and how to configure nginx. {{outline}} Gather SSL Certificate Files You need the following three SSL certificate files. You can …

Update 19th Sept 2014: We added a reference to the GitLab Omnibus Readme as additional resources at the bottom of this post. This post describes how to configure a running GitLab instance with a (self-signed) SSL certificate. The following steps assume you already have a running instance of GitLab available. …

Ubuntu usually ships with an outdated version of nginx. To install the up-to-date version, follow these steps: sudo -s nginx=stable # use nginx=development for the latest development version {{outline}} By setting nginx=stable you declare a temporary environment variable that defines the nginx version you want to install. Use …