# Starting WordPress-Nginx Tutorial Series

*Published:* 2012-09-11
*Author:* Rahul Bansal

> We are starting WordPress-Nginx tutorial series to make your site fast like rtCamp.com! I hope you will find this useful.

[![NGinx](https://rtcamp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/03/NGinx.jpg?resize=220%2C91&quality=100&strip=all "NGinx")](https://rtcamp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/03/NGinx.jpg?quality=100&strip=all)It has been almost 3 years that we moved our high-traffic blog [Devils Workshop](http://devilsworkshop.org/) to [Nginx](http://nginx.org/) – one of the fastest web server out there.

When I started with Nginx, there was very less help available. I spent most of my time on Nginx IRC channel, mailing lists and forums communicating with people across the globe.

Back then, it seemed like a crazy move. But now I am glad I took that step. It was totally worth it. One of the most commendable achievement is that we handle almost half-million hits everyday for more than 20 sites hosted on our dedicated server.This is without any slowdown or downtime. I feel proud to switch to Nginx much earlier. As an early mover, I learned way too many things myself as there was no alternative then.

Today, as a server-administrator, I feel that I have learned enough to authoritatively write down my own findings here as a series of articles. I hope you will find this helpful to the Nginx community.

## Goals for this series

At bare minimum you need PHP, MySQL, Nginx & WordPress to get the job done. It can be covered in a quick & dirty tutorial!

I call it dirty because most Nginx related tutorial miss Postfix – a mail server needed on many server OS! Some even wanted to use Nginx as front-end for Apache. Some of them setup PHP in vulnerable ways. Some of them do not mention anything about debugging, optimizing and on-going maintenance.

Addressing so many things is not possible in a single tutorial. Also, I plan to update the series regularly. Segregating it under different chapters will not only help you but will also make it easy for me to maintain and update it.

## How this series is organized!

Though this series is focused on WordPress mostly, we use Nginx for running other web-applications also. As we use WordPress for everything, we have many different Nginx configuration for different circumstances.

So, we will keep WordPress-Nginx configuration related articles separate from managing PHP, MySQL, Nginx & other softwares’ stack. WordPress-Nginx configuration itself are OS independent for most of the parts. While managing PHP, MySQL, Nginx & other softwares’ will be OS-dependent. For this series we will be using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS everywhere.

## **Overall, the series has been divided in:**

- Installing PHP, MySQL, Postfix & Nginx on Ubuntu *(one-time activities)*
- Nginx configuration for different WordPress scenarios *(repeated every-time you create a wordpress)*
- Debugging/Optimizing PHP, MySQL, Nginx & WordPress at different levels
- Troubleshooting – Common errors & their solutions
- Other helpful articles e.g. mail server, backup, control panel for Nginx, useful tools/projects

As Nginx development has gathered a lot of momentum and is evolving faster than I anticipated, you may find today’s best configuration outdated in future. I will try my best to keep individual articles updated.

I will be publishing one article everyday on this blog. You can [subscribe to this blog easily](https://rtcamp.com/subscribe/).

At any time, you can [use our free support forum if you need some technical help](https://community.easyengine.io/). Comments will be kept open to discuss article itself.

I hope you will find [this series](https://easyengine.io/blog/) useful. 🙂

### Categories and Taxonomies

#### Categories
[News](https://rtcamp.com/blog/category/news.md)

### Related Posts

- [What's coming in WordPress 7.2](https://rtcamp.com/blog/whats-coming-in-wordpress-7-2.md)
- [When you're the only one who understands WordPress: Take from WordCamp US 2026](https://rtcamp.com/blog/only-one-who-understands-wordpress-wcus-2026.md)
- [Agents need good tools too: Insights from WordCamp US 2026](https://rtcamp.com/blog/editorial-experience-for-humans-ai-wcus-2026.md)
- [Why the WordPress agency is becoming invisible | Perspective from WCUS 2026](https://rtcamp.com/blog/wordpress-agency-becoming-invisible-wcus-2026.md)
- [Behind the table Takeaways from WordCamp’s “Core AI Prompt Bar” with David Levine](https://rtcamp.com/blog/wcus-2026-core-ai-prompt-bar-takeaways.md)

### Navigation

- Previous Post: [BuddyPress Media 2.0.2 Release](https://rtcamp.com/blog/buddypress-media-2-0-2-release.md)
- Next Post: [Think of SEO Before Developing Your Website!](https://rtcamp.com/blog/think-of-seo-before-developing-your-website.md)