Nginx Server Configs is a collection of configuration files that can help your server improve the website's performance and security, while also ensuring that resources are served with the correct content-type and are accessible, if needed, even cross-domain.
Using the Nginx server configs repo directly has a few required steps to be able to work.
The first thing to check is that the nginx.conf
file contains appropriate values for
your specific install.
Most specific variables are:
user
error_log
pid
access_log
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To verify Nginx config
nginx -t
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To verify Nginx config with a custom file
nginx -t -c nginx.conf
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To reload Nginx and apply the new config
nginx -s reload
This repository has the following structure:
./
├── conf.d/
│ ├── default.conf
│ └── templates/
├── h5bp/
│ ├── basic.conf
│ ├── location/
│ └── .../
├── custom.d/
│ └── .../
├── mime.types
└── nginx.conf
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conf.d/
This directory should contain all the
server
definitions.Except if they are dot prefixed or non
.conf
extension, all files in this directory are loaded automatically.-
templates
folderFiles in this directory contain a
server
template for secure and non-secure hosts. They are intended to be copied in theconf.d
directory with allexample.com
occurrences changed to the target host.
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h5bp/
This directory contains config snippets (mixins) to be included as desired.
There are two types of config files provided: individual config snippets and combined config files which provide convenient defaults.
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basic.conf
This file loads a small subset of the rules provided by this repository to add
expires
headers, allow cross-domain fonts and protect system files from web access. Thebasic.conf
file includes the rules which are recommended to always be defined. -
location/
Files in this directory contain one or more
location
directives. They are intended to be loaded in theserver
context (or, in a nestedlocation
block).
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custom.d/
This directory should contain all the custom
nginx.conf
configuration.Except if they are dot prefixed or non
.conf
extension, all files in this folder are loaded automatically. -
mime.types
The
mime.types
file is responsible for mapping file extensions to MIME types. -
nginx.conf
The main Nginx config file.
To use as reference requires no special installation steps, download/checkout the repository to a convenient location and adapt your existing Nginx configuration incorporating the desired functionality from this repository.
Download the latest release archive.
To use directly, replace the Nginx config directory with this repository. For example:
nginx -s stop
cd /etc
mv nginx nginx-previous
git clone https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx.git nginx
# install-specific edits
nginx
cd /etc/nginx/conf.d
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Creating a new site
cp templates/example.com.conf .actual-hostname.conf sed -i 's/example.com/actual-hostname/g' .actual-hostname.conf
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Enabling a site
mv .actual-hostname.conf actual-hostname.conf
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Disabling a site
mv actual-hostname.conf .actual-hostname.conf
nginx -s reload
- Nginx v1.8.0+
Anyone is welcome to contribute, however, if you decide to get involved, please take a moment to review the guidelines:
Nginx Server Configs is only possible thanks to all the awesome contributors!
The code is available under the MIT license.