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I recently decided to make the move back to Wordpress from a smaller Rails application called Simplelog. I’ll save my reasons for another post, but needless to say, I had to decide what type of application stack I would use to host Wordpress. After a bit of research, I decided to go with NginX in the front end to serve static files, and put Apache behind it to serve the dynamic PHP content through the use of mod_php. I had originally thought I might use NginX only, but Wordpress is fairly dependent on mod_rewrite for a lot of things, and NginX doesn’t really have an equivalent yet, so I wanted to have Wordpress itself running on Apache. Read the rest of this entry »