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This module manages NGINX configuration.
## Quick Start
### Requirements
* Puppet-2.7.0 or later
* Facter 1.7.0 or later
* Ruby-1.9.3 or later (Support for Ruby-1.8.7 is not guaranteed. YMMV).
### Additional Documentation
* [A Quickstart Guide to the NGINX Puppet Module]['/docs/quickstart.md']
### Install and bootstrap an NGINX instance
```puppet
class { 'nginx': }
```
### Setup a new virtual host
### Creating a new virtual host
```puppet
nginx::resource::vhost { 'www.puppetlabs.com':
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}
```
### Add a smtp proxy
```puppet

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}
```
This puppet code block will:
In summary, this puppet code block will:
* Install the latest version of nginx from the 'mainline' nginx distributino.
* Define a virtual host `www.myhost.com` for our website.
* Define an *upstream* service that consists of a single external IP address.
* Define a URL that will proxy to the upstream resource. In this case, `http://www.myhost.com/blog` will proxy to an external resource hosted at `http://192.168.99.1`.
## References
There are a number of resources available for learning how to use NGINX effectively. Here are a few that you may find useful:
[nginx.org][nginx]: The NGNIX homepage.
[NGINX Documentation][ngixdocs]: Open Source NGINX Documentation
[NGINX vs. Apache][nginxvsapache]: A good article from [DigitalOcean][] describing the key differences between the use and architecture of NGINX vs. the Apache HTTPD server. This is a good article if you are new to NGINX or want a simple overview of the NGINX event driven architecture.
[nginx]: http://ngnix.org
[phpfpm]: http://php-fpm.org
[nginxpackages]: http://nginx.org/packages/mainline
[nginxdocs]: http://nginx.org/en/docs/
[puppetlabsapache]: https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/apache
[digitalocean]: https://www.digitalocean.com