Nginx

HTTP server, proxy, reverse proxy etc

Links

• Homepage
• Varnish vs nginx

Notes

SSL certificates

The host.crt goes first in the bundle

server {
 listen   443;
 ssl    on;
 ssl_certificate    /etc/ssl/your_domain_name.pem; (or bundle.crt)
 ssl_certificate_key    /etc/ssl/your_domain_name.key;
 server_name your.domain.com;
 access_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.access.log;
 error_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.error.log;
 location / {
  root   /home/www/public_html/your.domain.com/public/;
  index  index.html;
 }
}

FAQ

no live upstreams while connecting to upstream

can't connect to whatever backend?

upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream

https://www.getpagespeed.com/server-setup/nginx/tuning-proxy_buffer_size-in-nginx Category: Proxy

enable ipv6

In server section add

listen [::]:443;