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# A QuickStart Guide to the NGINX Module
The goal of this module is to simplify the deployment and management of
## Why NGINX?
Before going too far, make sure that the [NGINX][] web server is appropriate for your needs. NGINX
was designed to be a scalable web and proxy server with the abiilty to handle
thousands of concurrent connections, but it is not designed to manage dynamic content. For dynamic
web applications, NGINX must be configured to _proxy_ connections to a different process. For
example, a PHP application in the common "LAMP Stack" configuration with Apache and PHP only requires a
few dynamic modules and configuration changes. Running the same application with an NGINX infrastructure
requires the configuration of a NGINX proxy layer and a secondary runtime such as [PHP-FPM][phpfpm]. This
can add complexity to setting up the infrastructure, but it does allow you to scale application layers
independently. For a good comparison of how NGINX differs from Apache, [DigitalOcean][] published
a [good article][nginxvsapache] detailing some of the differences between the two.
**NOTE**: At this point, the module only supports Debian or RedHat based linux distributions.
# A QuickStart Guide to the NGINX Puppet Module
## Basic NGINX Installation and Configuration