nginx

Put it inside your server { } segment. For example, to redirect all user accessing www.idontlikewww.com to idontlikewww.com, the following config snippet will work.

if ($host = 'www.idontlikewww.com' ) {
    rewrite  ^/(.*)$  http://idontlikewww.com/$1  permanent;
}

Self-notes...after spending a few hours researching and benchmarking various configurations. Apache is so old news.

Setup:

• Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04)
• nginx as frontend webserver
• Drupal served using fastcgi to phpcgi
• ...and Drupal's Boost module.

Most of these configs is gathered from http://groups.drupal.org/node/26363.

How fast is it now? How about almost 6,000 requests/sec, with throughput around 240Mbps? Fast enough?

Encountered this error when I tried to upload a large file. nginx default is too small. To upload bigger file, add this line in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, somewhere inside the http section:

http {
    ....
    client_max_body_size 20M;
    ....
}

Save, and then restart your nginx instance.