Lately there has been some “noise” about using a Mongrel Cluster and NGINX. MacPorts does not have a NGINX port yet, so you’ll need to do it yourself.

First download NGINX (I used version 0.4.10) and PCRE (I used the 6.3 source). You’ll need to have the PCRE sourcecode to be able to compile NGINX. I used the following configure command to compile the code:

./configure --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --with-http_ssl_module --prefix=/opt/local/nginx --with-pcre=../pcre-6.3

This will install NGINX in /opt/local/nginx, i.e. where all your MacPort stuff is.

For the rest I suggest you look at the work done by Dominic Damian and Ezra Zygmuntowicz

Now … mail me your performance statistics!