Incompatibility with nginx

nginx - the raise of a new giant

So.. my host has made a lot of nice changes on the server that enhanced the speed but made my vbulletin's ALBUMS unusable.

My host says:-

We now have started using complex setup to serve sites, all of sites are now being served by two Web server softwares, apache for dynamic contents and Nginx for static contents.

Nginx web server is proxifying all of dynamic contents requests to apache like Php and other dynamically generated contents, while it is processing all of static contents like images, css, zip and other static files extensions.

We have made the complex setup to run server more efficiently while keeping server load as minimum as possible, with just current implementation we are saving 1 GB of ram which you can see from server status page which always used to be 30+% and now it is 15% only .

You can read more about Nginx here :-

Apache vs Nginx : Web Server Performance Deathmatch
Nginx - Small, But Very Powerful and Efficient Web Server :: Homo-Adminus Blog by Alexey Kovyrin

Everything was working fine except the albums. None of the pictures in albums were displayed (were giving 404 nginx error) NOR the customized profile's CSS was working.

I then disabled rewriting of Member Profiles URL's and it started working. This is also a reason why I have suggested a Separate Album URL's turning ON/OFF option so that I could have turned it off temporarily until my nginx problem resolves.

Thanks

Lots of site use Nginx with vBSEO without a problem. Please open a support ticket for further investigation.

Hello,

albums seem to work fine on your forum now, did you manage to resolve the issue?

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Hello,

albums seem to work fine on your forum now, did you manage to resolve the issue?

hi oleg,

no.. I have instead contacted my host and asked him to disable nginx for my domain as I wanted a quick workaround for the problem.

But now I am enabling it again for my site so lets see if it happens again.

Thanks

It still looks ok for me, for instance this URL is handled by nginx: http://www.tech555.com/forum/members.../11-wisdom.jpg

Code:

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.7.17
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:18:01 GMT
...

alright.. due to some hammering problem as my host stated, they have installed Litespeed Enterprise on the server and things are working gr8.

Btw.. Oleg sir, how did you got that server info for a specific URL ?

Thank you

Btw.. Oleg sir, how did you got that server info for a specific URL ?

This is include in webserver's response HTTP headers, in this particular case I used mozdev.org - livehttpheaders: index Firefox addon for that.