Comparison of Apache and Nodejs with Nginx Configuration

Table of Contents
1. Apache and Nodejs..............................................................................................................................1
2. Apache and Nginx...............................................................................................................................4
3. Configuration of Nodejs......................................................................................................................6
4. Configuration of Nginx......................................................................................................................11
5. References.........................................................................................................................................18
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1. Apache and Nodejs
Apache Nodejs
User authentication
and authorization
 It is configured for website
visitors to sign in with the help
of username and password.
 The login security applies
to the web pages which is stored
in the directory.
 Nodejs used to build a
website with the user
authentication, managing,
and authorization like
registration, login, and
username, reset password,
email verification etc.
 Nodejs allows for login
security in the user profiles
which is stored in the
database.
Secure
communications
 In apache, SSL offers for
secure communications in the
middle of server and client by
permitting mutual
authentication.
 The uses of digital
signatures for encryption and
integrity for privacy (Islam &
Singh, 2015).
 Nodejs helps contents
over the http by default.
 An http module is used
in instruction to securely
communicate over a secure
channel with the client.
Monitoring and
Logging
 The monitoring module
apache server supports oracle
http server and IBM http server.
 By default, Apache creates
log files in local. Apache
contains access log, pre-module
logging and error log.
 Nodejs monitoring
consists of various levels
such as zones, regions,
nodejs software and
individual server that runs
on them.
 Logging in nodejs is
adding log4js with support
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to nodejs app.
Configuring and
running web
programming
languages
 It supports the web
programming languages such as
HTML, PHP etc.
 Apache HTTP server and
Apache Tomcat are the
software’s which are used for
doing different operations
 It supports the web
programming language
called JavaScript.
 JavaScript runtime
built and it is used for
executing the different
operations outside the
browsers
Proxy
configurations
 Apache server supports two
kinds of proxy configurations. It
supports both the forward and
reverse proxy modes.
 The forward proxy is for
improving the clients like the
web browser and the reverse
proxy is for the improve server
like a web server.
 Nodejs support the
proxy configuration and it
is achieved by means of
NPM library installer
behind the proxy.
 Both client and server
are configured in the NPM
package installer.
Support for
HTTP 1 and
HTTP 2
 Apache contains the http1
and http2 support by default.
 In apache, the support for
http1 and http2 are normally
synchronous so the response
time is higher and needs to wait
for the response (Gangwar,
Kumar & Rastogi, 2014).
 In nodejs, the support
for http1 and http2 is not
default.
 In nodejs, the support
for the http1 and http2 is
asynchronous and response
time is very less.
 The memory usage in
apache is less when compared
 The memory usage is
higher in nodejs.
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Memory Usage
to nodejs.
 For example, it takes nearly
45 to 50 megabytes per child
process. And it consumes nearly
205 megabyte memory for both
parent and child process.
 The memory is higher
and it takes nearly 2858
megabytes for its child
process alone.
2. Apache and Nginx
Nginx Apache
User authentication and
authorization
The restriction process in the
website is configured with
HTTP basic authentication.
The NGNIX took it as the
prerequisite for the
configuration.
There are 3 types of modules
used in Apache such as
authentication type and
provider, and authorization.
Secure communications
The SSL certificate is added
in the configuration file for
the secure communication.
Cryptographic techniques are
used and provide the
certificates for secure
communication.
Monitoring and
Logging
Monitoring is important in
Nginx because the component
is critical between the user
Monitoring is important for
the classic LAMP stack.
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and user service.
Logging displays the activity
and parses.
Many logging software used
in the Apache like Log4j.
Virtual Hosting
The multiple websites on a
single host can make the long
process easily. When Nginx
new file is created, then the
virtual host is configured.
The configuration file will be
created. Then the virtual host
will be defined for the apache
web server.
URL rewriting and
redirection
URL redirect is created by
creating the server block
regarding the content to be
redirected.
The redirect is created by
using various tools.
Support for
HTTP 1 and
HTTP 2
HTTP 2 supports the
multiplexing concept for the
sending the data. HTTP 1
does not support the
multiplexing feature for
communicating the
information.
HTTP 1 is basically
synchronous. HTTP 2 is
based on the SPDY protocol.
Memory Usage Nginx has the low memory
usage ("The Improvement
and Implementation of the
Apache has the high memory
usage.
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