diff --git a/docs/quickstart.md b/docs/quickstart.md index 8d73749..9c7c97d 100644 --- a/docs/quickstart.md +++ b/docs/quickstart.md @@ -1,21 +1,4 @@ -# 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