Here’s is a SPEC file for building the latest Nginx-v1.0.6 on RHEL/CentOS platform. My Basic modifications are: Nginx would be installed in a dedicated directory named /opt/admon/nginx The Nginx serves as a basic web server. Only a limited amount of modules are enabled. You can update it by [...]

In this post we’ll show an example on how to implement transfer rate limitation in Nginx. As this limitation is User agent based, it can be very meaningful for high transfer volume websites like download site,  a mirror site like mirror.centos.org, etc.