Some work was started: https://gitlab.com/clearos/clearfoundation/app-nginx
How important is it to support NGINX on ClearOS?
Pros
- Kimchi only support NGINX: https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/issues/668
- It's easier to support GitLab
- FusionPBX prefers it: http://fusionpbx-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/quick_install.html
- Would be easier for HTTP2
- How to install a PHP version picker on ClearOS use PHP's FastCGI Process Manager (FPM) which should make it somewhat easy.
Cons
- More ongoing work
- Needs to work with Let's Encrypt (ex.: so we can secure HTML5 sessions to Kimchi)
- Let's Encrypt works perfectly with NGINX using a number of automated ACME renewal tools such as certbot and acmetool -Paul
- Right. but we want it to work in the ClearOS app: How to install Let's Encrypt SSL certificates on ClearOS
- Let's Encrypt works perfectly with NGINX using a number of automated ACME renewal tools such as certbot and acmetool -Paul
- For Tiki, NGINX is not really supported but http://dev.tiki.org and http://doc.tiki.org run on NGINX so we know it works. This could be a suitable reason to improve Tiki to have good support on NGINX.
- No support for Apache Tomcat java applet applications. However NGINX and Apache webservers can run side by side with nginx cleanly forward proxying to Apache Tomcat instances.
- Needs to work with Let's Encrypt (ex.: so we can secure HTML5 sessions to Kimchi)
Related links
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Nginx (explains some differences with Apache)