Nginx

Good coice! Nginx is prefered! :)

Remove .htaccess files (step 5 optional)

Nginx does not support .htaccess files. -> remove them!

Hint: One advantage from Nginx over Apache is, that .htaccess don´t have to be parsed on each request. -> This lowers TTFB.

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Server configuration (step 6)

The following example configuration is used in my "Production" environment. If you need a configuration for "Local" testing/developing please contact me ;). I run PATHFINDER in a Virtual-Host configuration setup, based on "hp5b´s example config, on Nginx v1.9.9 (Released 2015-12-09) and PHP v7.0.1 *(Released 2015-12-17).

Important: Some configuration options/values may vary between versions! Do not blind copy&paste my configuration, some options/values depend on your server hardware!

HTTP config (my nginx.conf)

In detail:

• Set server user to nginx
• Set worker options (depends on your hardware)
• Set global logging options (path, format,...)
• Set charset options
• Set timeout options
• Set buffer options
• Set global file_cacheoptions
• Enable gzip
• Set gzip options
• Optimize TCP settings for Single Page Apps
• Include main server configs (e.g. sites_enabled/pathfinder.conf, see below)

Server config (my pathfinder.conf)

In detail: