Comments on: WordPress with W3 Total Cache on Nginx with APC (Virtualmin)

By: Chris Gilligan

Chris Gilligan — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:54:47 +0000

In reply to Nabeel. Nabeel, this is a very old post from 2012; I no longer suggest to use this configuration, it was just a test case. @wordpress is to handle WordPress pretty URLs/permalinks.

By: Nabeel

Nabeel — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:01:24 +0000

Why are we adding @wordpress block? and what does it refer to? any files in “wordpress” directory? or any directory name having wordpress installed in it?

Is it still valid with current version of nginx and wordpress and w3tc?

By: Chris Gilligan

Chris Gilligan — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:08:41 +0000

In reply to Mike. Settings > General > Site Address (URL) Then copy index.php from /wordpress and put it in your public root ( /public_html or whatever folder is above /wordpress ) In this new index.php, change require('./wp-blog-header.php'); to require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php'); If you have any internal links or hard-coded menus already set up, you may have to change them manually or via SQL.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:46:16 +0000

Hey, another question, i did set up a new website according to this description which works fine but i allways need to call it with http://domain.tld/wordpress – grrr
How can i order nginx to always run it from the wordpress sub without having it into the URL?

Thanks
Mike

By: Santiago

Santiago — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:08:43 +0000

Excellent information, Thanks.

By: Chris Gilligan

Chris Gilligan — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:19:56 +0000

In reply to Mike. Mike, I do not know if this will work with multisite, as I do not use it. I suppose I could test it at some point in the future, but I am not motivated to do so at the moment.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:00:10 +0000

Excellent information – would this run with multisite installations where sites run on thei own domain name?

Thanks a lot!

By: Chris Gilligan

Chris Gilligan — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:26:05 +0000

In reply to Max. True Max! Remember to flush the APC cache after software updates such as Wordpress core or plugin updates.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:43:17 +0000

If you want to make the opcode cache a little more effective, but only on a production server, you should set apc.stat = 0. When it is set to 1 APC checks on every request an object in the cache to see if the file has recently been modified on disk, if it has, it recompiles the php code and stores the object again.

You can see how the extra stat() on each object access would slow the object cache down in a production environment – particularly if the site is very busy, however, this is very useful if you are developing on a site with APC caching enabled.

By: Chris Gilligan

Chris Gilligan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:59:17 +0000

Yes, autoupdate works. Virtualmin does run nginx as FCGId, which is run as virtual server owner, which is what makes WordPress updates “just work”.

Virtualmin’s implementation may not be the best or fastest way to run a WordPress site on Nginx, but it is certainly convenient and easy. It’s also very easy to add additional PHP FCGId sub-processes to decrease latency, or to switch to “None”, and have the processes spawn on demand (higher latency, but more RAM frugal, and auto-scaling).

Also, make sure you have the PHP FTP module loaded.