Nginx

Service commands

• service nginx start
• service nginx stop
• service nginx restart
• service nginx reload

Overall config

• Located at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
• Includes other files with include /etc/nginx/sites_enabled/*

user www-data; # Which user runs the server
worker_processes 4; # How many threads to run
pid /run/nginx.pid; # Where to write the process

events {
        worker_connections 768;
        # multi_accept on;
}
http {
    sendfile on;
    tcp_nopush on;
    tcp_nodelay on;
    keepalive_timeout 65;
    types_hash_max_size 2048;

    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type application/octet-stream;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log; # Location
    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;   # Location

    gzip on;
    gzip_disable "msie6";
}

Virtual host config

• Included in overall config
• Staged servers located at /etc/nginx/sites-available
• Live servers located at /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
• Symlink staged to live to enable server - ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/file /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/file

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    root /var/www/ihatethepush;
    index index.html;

    server_name ihatethepush.*;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }
}