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by jraph 1236 days ago
WordPress pretty much requires Apache and is a very big chunk of the web.

Actually, WordPress works with Nginx but it's less plug and play than Apache, so many people are still going to use Apache, even if they put Nginx in front of it. Apache implements stuff Nginx intentionally doesn't, but this stuff is still useful in some scenarios.

https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/nginx/
3 comments
roflyear 1235 days ago
Not true I've run nginx for clients with WordPress setups for close to 10y now.
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jraph 1235 days ago
Read my comment again. You can, but it's less plug and play and therefore, most people are going to use Apache.
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roflyear 1233 days ago
"WordPress pretty much requires Apache and is a very big chunk of the web."

That isn't true. It doesn't require Apache.

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tredre3 1236 days ago
> WordPress pretty much requires Apache and is a very big chunk of the web.

Wordpress requires a web server and PHP. If you have nginx configured to run PHP, you can drop wordpress in a folder and it will just work™.

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unity1001 1236 days ago
A lot of prominent plugins require the ability to modify .htaccess. With Nginx hosts, the users have to do it via a web panel by adding the rules manually. No non-technical user can do that. So the majority of WP space still runs behind Apache.
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roflyear 1235 days ago
I'm not certain, but that sounds sketchy.
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unity1001 1235 days ago
Its not. Literally almost ~50% of the web runs on it. Apache has top level permissions. Then individual virtual hosts/sites can modify their own htaccess per the permissions that they are afforded. These permissions are generally limited, but when it comes to mod rewrite, they have pretty much full liberty to write any rewrite rule. Since their rewrites would affect just their own vhosts anyways.

Works like a clock. And its extremely convenient even for developers. Anything ranging from seo friendly urls to anti-bot/security rules can be written in by a plugin.

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roflyear 1234 days ago
Not htaccess, rather allowing your webapp to write to htaccess.
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ihateolives 1236 days ago
No .htaccess with rewrite rules for wp?
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roflyear 1235 days ago
Which rules?
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throwawayacc3 1236 days ago
That probably explains everything! I've never deployed WordPress, but it's everywhere! Thanks
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