I followed the guide: http://www.howtoforge.com/reduce-apache-load-with-nginx-rhel5.2 Code: http { include /etc/nginx/mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] $request ' '"$status" $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"'; access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main; sendfile on; tcp_nopush on; tcp_nodelay on; keepalive_timeout 65; gzip on; # Load config files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf; # # The default server # server { listen 80; server_name YOURSERVERNAME; #changed this to my server name #charset koi8-r; #access_log logs/host.access.log main; #Main location location / { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/; proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_connect_timeout 90; proxy_send_timeout 90; proxy_read_timeout 90; client_max_body_size 10m; client_body_buffer_size 128k; proxy_buffer_size 4k; proxy_buffers 4 32k; proxy_busy_buffers_size 64k; root /usr/share/nginx/html; index index.html index.htm index.php; } I changed the SERVERNAME to xxxx.com www.xxxx.com I got that test page and everything But my Documentroot in apache httpd.conf is not /var/www/htdocs So I changed it to /var/www/vhosts/xxxx.com/httpdocs which is where my docs are.. and I downloaded my PHP.. so I added Addhandler (blah blah).. still nothing, it doesnt want to run Ioncube files and it give me a mess. When I get rid of all the changes (from the tutorial) the website works because I think PLESK is redirecting everything, but with nginx, its apache that is controlling the documentroot. Any other tips?