Patrick Nommensen pnommensen

Full blog post can be found here: http://pnommensen.com/2014/09/07/high-performance-ghost-configuration-with-nginx/

Ghost is an open source platform for blogging founded by John O'Nolan and Hannah Wolfe. It's a node.js application and therefore works great in conjunction with nginx. This guide will will help you create a high performance nginx virtual host configuration for Ghost.

"Don't use #nodejs for static content" - @trevnorris. If #nginx isn't sitting in front of your node server, you're probably doing it wrong.
— Bryan Hughes (@nebrius) August 30, 2014

The node.js application runs on a port on your server

	## Use the Nginx Helper plugin to define cache purge rules and purge cache from dashboard
	## Add the following three lines to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

	fastcgi_cache_path /var/run/nginx-cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=WORDPRESS:100m inactive=60m;
	#inactive == if the page isn't accessed once during this time, it's deleted.
	#keys_zone == name of the zone and max space allocation. If you have high ram, can mount as tmpfs.
	fastcgi_cache_key "$scheme$request_method$host$request_uri";
	fastcgi_cache_use_stale error timeout invalid_header http_500;

	server {

	sub vcl_fetch {
	# Bypass cache for files > 10 MB
	if (std.integer(beresp.http.Content-Length, 0) > 10485760) {
	return (hit_for_pass);
	}
	}

	function my_login_failed_403() {
	status_header( 403 );
	}
	add_action( 'wp_login_failed', 'my_login_failed_403' );