JeroenBoersma

Introduction

Because Varnish doesn't support SSL, most people choose a setup where Nginx SSL will forward all traffic to Varnish and Varnish will forward will forward the traffic it cannot handle back to nginx. Or worse, bind Varnish on port 80 and direct all traffic into Varnish. This will already degrade performance, because Varnish will purge more because static files are also taking up room in the cache.

Default configuration

Next up, the Nginx configuration of Magento will handle static files.

Nilpo

Using Git to Manage a Live Web Site

Overview

As a freelancer, I build a lot of web sites. That's a lot of code changes to track. Thankfully, a Git-enabled workflow with proper branching makes short work of project tracking. I can easily see development features in branches as well as a snapshot of the sites' production code. A nice addition to that workflow is that ability to use Git to push updates to any of the various sites I work on while committing changes.

Contents

• Prerequisites
• Getting Started