Comments on: FreeBSD: Nginx Virtual Hosting Configuration

By: silpheed

silpheed — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:31:41 +0000

I’m receiving the following failure when checking my configs;

# /usr/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf -t
2010/08/26 22:30:29 [emerg] 5920#0: “server” directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/vhosts/blerg.com.conf:1
2010/08/26 22:30:29 [emerg] 5920#0: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed

Any suggestions?

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:43:54 +0000

Naa, nginx main process controlled by root and worker process run as nginx user (run pgrep -u ngixn nginx and pgrep nginx to verify this) . This is NGINX architecture, there is not much you can do about it.

By: symbol

symbol — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:15:51 +0000

I was refering to the access log (the dir /websites/theos.in/logs is owned by theosftpuser and under theosftpgroup)
access_log /websites/theos.in/logs/access.log main;
I just tried this out n it seems nginx writes the access log but the created file is owned by root. Could this lead to a potential security risk

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:36:32 +0000

@symbol,

There is only one error log in above config which is owned by nginx user itself.

By: symbol

symbol — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:33:16 +0000

Since the vhost dirs are are owned by theosftpuser and under theosftpgroup wont nginx have a problem writing the access logs in there?

By: Pedram

Pedram — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:25:49 +0000

Your log format is completely wrong, Your missing the quotes on $request, thanx for creating 4 gigs of logs I now have to convert…