Frequently Asked Questions About Linux / UNIX » Nginx

Nginx: SPDY SSL Installation and Configuration On Debian / Ubuntu

nixCraft — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:24:36 +0000

Google Chrome/Chromium, Firefox and Opera browser support SPDY networking protocol. It enables faster browsing on supported sites. SPDY is similar to HTTP, with particular goals to reduce web page load latency and improve web security. SPDY achieves reduced latency through compression, multiplexing, and prioritization. How do I enable nginx SPDY support running on Debian or Ubuntu Linux server?

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Nginx: Block URL Access (wp-admin/wp-login.php) To All Except One IP Address

nixCraft — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:07:13 +0000

I am the small business owner and runs my own web-site. I have noticed increased cracking activity against by blog. What's the best way to block WordPress URLs such as example.com/blog/wp-login.php and example.com/blog/wp-admin/ in the nginx web-server?

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Apache / Nginx / Lighttpd: PHP Disable File Upload

nixCraft — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:31:55 +0000

I am in the process of setting Apache and PHP for my small business server. I'm not utilizing file upload functionality in any of my PHP scripts. How do I disallow uploading files under CentOS or Ubuntu Linux based LAMP server?

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nginx: See Active connections / Connections Per Seconds

nixCraft — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:24:10 +0000

How do I monitor my nginx server status and connections requests per seconds under Linux or Unix like operating systems?

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RHEL / Centos 6: Install Nginx Using Yum Command

nixCraft — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:26:19 +0000

How can I install Nginx web server On CentOS Linux 6 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 using yum command?

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Gracefully Restart Nginx Web Server After Changes Made In a Config File

nixCraft — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:31:38 +0000

I know how to gracefully restart Apache web server under Unix like operating system. I made changes to nginx.conf. How do I gracefully restart Nginx web server? How do I make changes in a Nginx server config file to take effect without restarting the Nginx server itself without interrupting users' current session?

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HowTo: Nginx Redirect All HTTP Request To HTTPS Rewrite Rules

nixCraft — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 23:54:01 +0000

I have setup nginx as a secure reverse proxy server. How do I redirect all http://example.com/ requests (traffic) to https://example.com/ under nginx web server?

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HowTo: Nginx Webserver Send Charset utf-8 Under Unix

nixCraft — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:46:31 +0000

I was told that to improve resource download parallelization in IE8 I need to send the character set to the HTTP Content-Type response header. How do I set charset utf-8 under nginx web server running on Unix like operating systems?

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Nginx Redirect (Rewrite) Old Domain To New Domain With HTTP 301

nixCraft — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:41:46 +0000

I've changed the domain name from long-domain-name-example.com to example.com which is shorter and easy to remember. How do I redirect old domain to new domain with "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" status code under nginx web server running on Unix like operating systems?

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Nginx proxy_redirect: Change response-header Location and Refresh in the response of the server

nixCraft — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:32:02 +0000

How do I replace upstream "Location: http://server1.cyberciti.biz:8080/app/" http/301 response-header with "Location: http://www.cyberciti.biz/app/" in the response of the proxied server using nginx?

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HowTo: Nginx Block User Agent

nixCraft — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:39:28 +0000

How do I block a http user agent or a software agent using Nginx web server under Linux or Unix like operating systems?

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Nginx Redirect URL With HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Header

nixCraft — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:03:46 +0000

How do I redirect old ugly urls such as http://example.com/store/view.jsp?product=foo with clean url - http://example.com/store/view/product/foo using nginx reverse proxy?

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Nginx: 413 Request Entity Too Large Error and Solution

nixCraft — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:29:39 +0000

I'm running nginx as a frond end to php based Apache+mod_fastcgi server. My app lets user upload images upto 2MB in size. When users trying to upload 1.5MB+ size image file using nginx reverse proxy, they are getting the following error on screen:

Nginx 413 Request Entity Too Large

How do I fix this problem and allow image upload upto 2MB in size?

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HowTo: Merge Apache / Lighttpd / Nginx Server Log Files

nixCraft — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:07:10 +0000

My ecommerce site runs using a cluster of Apache web server. The cluster is behind nginx load balancer. I want to merge backend Apache web server log files for statistics purpose. How do I mere web server log files under Linux / UNIX like operating systems using cron jobs? You need to use logresolvemerge Perl [...]

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HowTo: Find Out Nginx Web Server Version

nixCraft — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:49:20 +0000

How do I print Nginx web server version using command line option under Unix like operating systems?

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Ubuntu Linux: Start / Restart / Stop Nginx Web Server

nixCraft — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:03:52 +0000

How do I restart / stop / start the nginx web server under Ubuntu Linux operating systems?

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Mediawiki Fix Internal Server Host Names / Redirection In shared Hosting or Proxy Setup

nixCraft — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:57:17 +0000

Our customer support wiki runs on an internal host (ip:192.168.1.100:300, hostname a-node100.:300) and it is behind the nginx reverse proxy server. However, our Apache server end up displaying internal server name http://a-node100.:300/, which results into an unexpected redirection and timeouts as http://a-node100.:300/ is not accessible over the Internet. How do I force nginx or apache to use the base URL of our server (http://support.example.com/wiki/)?

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nginx: Create HTTP 503 Maintenance Custom Page

nixCraft — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:21:59 +0000

I know how to create a custom http 503 maintenance page under Lighttpd or Apache web server. How do I create a custom Nginx web server maintenance page?

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WordPress Rename Image URL For a CDN Usage

nixCraft — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 20:41:47 +0000

Recently, we moved all our static assets to a CDN as described here. However, we have over 8000+ old blog posts and we need to point static images url to our CDN account hosted at http://MyACCOUNT.cloudfront.net/images/ folder. How do I rename all image urls stored in wordpress posts? How do I offload static images to a CDN urls under Wordpress?

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NGINX: Create Custom 404 / 403 Error Page

nixCraft — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:39:27 +0000

How do I create a custom static HTTP 404 or HTTP 403 error page under nginx web server?

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