Why is ea-nginx no longer running in 'standalone' mode?

Question

Why is the ea-nginx service no longer running in 'standalone' mode?

Answer

Previously the ea-nginx service would enter a 'standalone' mode and proxy as necessary to other services such as Apache and PHP-FPM. Static resources were cached and served directly by Nginx.

Now the ea-nginx service automatically enters a reverse proxy mode with caching, where all requests will be forwarded to Apache for processing.

Achieving the previous behavior would require installing the ea-nginx-standalone package:

yum install ea-nginx-standalone

It is important to remember the ea-nginx packages are experimental and are intended for administrators with an advanced understanding of NGINX. 

More information on the NGINX standalone package can be found here:

NGINX Standalone