Magento Site Performance Optimization

Chapter 2
We have set all the surrounding technologies; we can now handle the web server
configuration. Here is the configuration proposed by Nginx developers for Magento
1.7+, which has been modified to run fastcgi:
server {
root /home/magento/web/;
index index.php;
server_name magento.example.com;
location / {
index index.html index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ @handler;
expires 30d;
}
location ~ ^/(app|includes|lib|media/downloadable|pkginfo|report/
config.xml|var)/ { internal; }
location /var/export/ { internal; }
location /. { return 404; }
location @handler { rewrite / /index.php; }
location ~* .php/ { rewrite ^(.*.php)/ $1 last; }
location ~* .php$ {
if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite / /index.php last; }
expires off;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fcgi.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
/var/www/magento-site-name$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
$document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_CODE default;
fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_TYPE store;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
}
This file must be created under /etc/nginx/sites-available/ and all the values
in bold must be adapted to your configuration.
After all this, we can restart Nginx and finally get the default performances on this
web server:
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
Here is the default performance of Nginx:
Document Path:
Document Length:
/magento/index.php/furniture/living-room.html
16538 bytes
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