I switched! No more Apache for this web site.

I've been wanting to try out nginx for quite some time now. I've heard a lot of good experiences from people I know that use it. And part of my job as a sysadmin is to make suggestions on which technology can be used for each situation, so it's always good to expand my knowledge pool.

What is this about

This post will look like a howto about configuring nginx to serve Drupal 7 sites, but I'll keep a lot of rough edges when the steps are straight forward. If there are any questions, I can answer them in the comments.

Well well well... Setting up a simple blog is more work than I thought.
With work stealing all my time, finding some time to actually dig into setting up a blog meant skipping a night's sleep.

Here's my choice: a plain Drupal 7 with the following modules: Markdown, Tagadelic, CAPTCHA, Ajax comments, Pathauto.

I won't go into too much details about setting up Drupal, since it's pretty easy for such a simple site. I got most of my inspiration for the setup from this site.