Nginx
From wikinotes
Nginx is kind a content-serving swiss army knife. It fills the roles of
- webserver
- proxy server
- load balancer
Documentation
official docs https://nginx.org/en/docs/ wikipedia: HTTP headers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields
Locations
${PREFIX}/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
config /var/log/nginx/access.log
requests /var/log/nginx/errors.log
errors
Tutorials
intro http://nginx.org/en/docs/?&_ga=1.204580502.762888633.1456641309#introduction
Basics
nginx install nginx config nginx syntax
Notes
nginx ssl nginx reverse proxy nginx rewrite urls nginx allowlist or denylist nginx load balancing
Modules
Supplementary notes about the excellent nginx docs.
General
ngx_stream_ssl_preread_module reuse port for SSL, SSH, etc. Authentication
nginx basic_auth HTTP basic auth nginx-auth-ldap Auth via LDAP Optimization
ngx_http_gzip_module compress payloads