Im reading a blog about speeding up my wordpress install and it says to use ngx_cache_purge and headers-more-nginx-module

Is this necessary?

Hello,

Those modules are not "necessary" for caching per se. They can be useful for specific situations.. Following a "cookbook recipe" without understanding what the configuration may not be the best idea.

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Jim Ohlstein

Thanks for your reply Jim.

The recipe in question is this one: https://codex.wordpress.org/Nginx#Nginx_fastcgi_cache

As a new person to Nginx I put a little trust within it, as It is the official wordpress.org documentation for hosting WP on Nginx. But that doesnt make it the best option, nor the most up to date.

Does this seem like a good way to handle the caching?

If it does:
I installed nginx via apt. Do I apt-get remove and then compile from source and include the modules that way? Will I lose the ability to easily update via apt?

It not:
What do you recommend?


-Tory

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