There’s a lot of configurations that easy engine will set you up with so you do not have to marry the command line lol. There are a lot of vps servers out there that are running apache with varnish, or even using ngnx as a proxy, etc and you can find many step by step tutorials at digital ocean for a load of different server configurations.
I followed these two tutorials to set up nginx on a droplet with WordPress, multisite, and subdirectories. the first tutorial shows you many behind the scenes work that goes into the ngnx setup and the author at delicious brains included redis plugin and I think the ngnx helper as well on a single WordPress installation. The second one was very thorough on ngnx in a multisite for subdomains but I configured it as subdirectories instead during those particular steps:
Hosting WordPress Yourself: Setting Up a Secure Virtual Server
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Hosting WordPress Yourself: Setting Up a Secure Virtual Server
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How To Set Up WordPress Multisite with Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean
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How To Set Up WordPress Multisite with Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean
This tutorial will show you how to set up WordPress Multisite with subdomains on an Nginx web server. This allow… | |
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