Hello.

I've seen millions of websites using nginx as a proxifying webserver working together with Apache. But I've seen very few servers running nginx only as their default webserver. What are the main downsides of such config?

I can see some:

• Inability to use per-directory config files like .htaccess so every configuration change should be done to main server config file and requires server reload. But pecl htscanner can compensate them for php settings
• Unavailability of mod_php for nginx, which can be compensated by php-fpm for example.

What are others? Why don't people just drop Apache and move to nginx or any other lightweight solution? May be, there are some special reasons?