Questions tagged [nginx]
Nginx ("eNgine x") is a lightweight, high-performance HTTP server, reverse proxy, TCP stream proxy and mail proxy, released under a BSD-like license.
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In Nginx, how can I rewrite all http requests to https while maintaining sub-domain?
I want to rewrite all http requests on my web server to be https requests, I started with the following:
server {
listen 80;
location / {
rewrite ^(.*) https://mysite.com$1 ...
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How can I use environment variables in Nginx.conf
I have a docker container running Nginx, that links to another docker container. The host name and IP address of the second container is loaded into the Nginx container as environment variables on ...
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Nginx reverse proxy + URL rewrite
Nginx is running on port 80, and I'm using it to reverse proxy URLs with path /foo to port 3200 this way:
location /foo {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3200;
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Why do I need Nginx and something like Gunicorn?
I'm looking for an overly simplified answer to the following question. I'm trying to build a foundational understanding of how Nginx works alongside something like Gunicorn.
Do I need both Nginx and ...
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How do I add Access-Control-Allow-Origin in NGINX?
How do I set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header so I can use web-fonts from my subdomain on my main domain?
Notes:
You'll find examples of this and other headers for most HTTP servers in the ...
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How to reply with 200 from Nginx, without serving a file?
I have configured Apache to send back a 200 response without serving any file with this configuration line
Redirect 200 /hello
Can I do this with Nginx? I don't want to serve a file, I just want the ...
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How can I see which flags Nginx was compiled with?
How can I check what modules have been added to an nginx installation?
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How to force or redirect to SSL in nginx?
I have a signup page on a subdomain like: https://signup.example.com
It should only be accessible via HTTPS but I'm worried people might somehow stumble upon it via HTTP and get a 404.
My html/...
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nginx HTTPS serving with same config as HTTP
Is there a way to share configuration directives across two nginx server {} blocks? I'd like to avoid duplicating the rules, as my site's HTTPS and HTTP content are served with the exact same config.
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Nginx config reload without downtime
I use nginx as a reverse proxy.
Whenever I update the config for it using
sudo "cp -r #{nginx_config_path}* /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/"
sudo "kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/nginx.pid`"
I face a brief ...
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Difference in sites-available vs sites-enabled vs conf.d directories (Nginx)?
I have some experience using linux but none using nginx. I have been tasked with researching load-balancing options for an application server.
I have used apt-get to install nginx and all seems ...
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Nginx enable site command
We all know how to enable a website using apache on Linux.
I'm pretty sure that we all agree on using the a2ensite command.
Unfortunately, there is no default equivalent command that comes with Nginx, ...
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How do you restart php-fpm?
I need to reload my php.ini and there's nothing in the help dialog about restarting it.
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How to remove the path with an nginx proxy_pass
I have a running web-application at http://example.com/, and want to "mount" another application, on a separate server on http://example.com/en. Upstream servers and proxy_pass seem to work, but for ...
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How to output variable in nginx log for debugging
I am testing nginx and want to output variables to the log files. How can I do that and which log file will it go (access or error).
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How to set up Nginx as a caching reverse proxy?
I heard recently that Nginx has added caching to its reverse proxy feature. I looked around but couldn't find much info about it.
I want to set up Nginx as a caching reverse proxy in front of Apache/...
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Make nginx to pass hostname of the upstream when reverseproxying
I run several docker containers with hostnames:
web1.local
web2.local
web3.local
Routing to these done based on hostname by nginx. I have a proxy in front of this setup (on different machine ...
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Is it possible to make Nginx listen to different ports?
I created one Nginx with one Linux Azure VM, is it possible to make nginx listen to different ports so that when I change the port number, the content would be different. I found there would be a ...
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connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream
I'm experiencing 502 Gateway errors when accessing a PHP file in a directory (http://example.com/dev/index.php). The logs simply says this:
2011/09/30 23:47:54 [error] 31160#0: *35 connect() failed (...
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Can I hide all server / os info?
I don't want anyone to be able to detect that I'm using NGINX or even Ubuntu from the internet. There are tools out there (such as BuiltWith) which scan servers to detect what tools they're using. ...
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Nginx: How do I forward an HTTP request to another port?
What I want to do is: When someone visits http://localhost/route/abc the server responds exactly the same as http://localhost:9000/abc
Now I configure my Nginx server like this:
location /route {
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Nginx 1 FastCGI sent in stderr: “Primary script unknown”
My first time using Nginx, but I am more than familiar with Apache and Linux. I am using an existing project and when ever I am trying to see the index.php I get a 404 File not found.
Here is the ...
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How to disable timeout for nginx?
On a local development machine, I have a nginx reverse proxy like so:
server {
listen 80;
server_name myvirtualhost1.local;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
}
server {
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How does try_files work?
I looked at the nginx documentation and it still confuses me utterly.
How does try_files work? Here is what the documentation says:
From NginxHttpCoreModule
try_files
syntax: try_files path1 ...
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nginx - client request body is buffered to a temporary file
I get the following error in my log files every time I try to upload a large file.
a client request body is buffered to a temporary file /var/lib/nginx/body/0000000001
Although the file uploads ...
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What does this nginx error "rewrite or internal redirection cycle" mean?
tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log
2013/05/04 23:43:35 [error] 733#0: *3662 rewrite or internal redirection cycle while internally redirecting to "/index.html", client: 127.0.0.1, server: _, request: "...
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How to restart nginx?
For me, I run "killall nginx" and start it by "sbin/nginx", anyone has a better restart script?
BTW: I install nginx from source, i do not find 'service nginx' command or /etc/init.d/nginx
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Setting the "Expires" HTTP header for static content served from Nginx?
I'm using nginx to server my static content, is there a way that I can set the expires headers for every file that meets a specific rule? For example can I set the expires header for all files that ...
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Do you need separate IPv4 and IPv6 listen directives in nginx?
I've seen various config examples for handling dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 virtual hosts on nginx. Many suggest this pattern:
listen 80;
listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on;
As far as I can see, this achieves ...
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an upstream response is buffered to a temporary file
I have a rather large and slow (complex data, complex frontend) web application build in RoR and served by Puma with nginx as reverse proxy.
Looking at the nginx error log, I see quite a few entries ...
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Properly setting up a "default" nginx server for https
I have several servers running on the same machine, some with http only, some with both http and https. There are several server blocks defined in separate files which are included from the main ...
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How to force nginx to resolve DNS (of a dynamic hostname) everytime when doing proxy_pass?
I am using nginx/0.7.68, running on CentOS, with the following configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name ***;
index index.html index.htm index.php default.html default.htm ...
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"413 Request Entity Too Large" in Nginx with "client_max_body_size" set
I am uploading a 26Gb file, but I am getting:
413 Request Entity Too Large
I know, this is related to client_max_body_size, so I have this parameter set to 30000M.
location /supercap {
root /...
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How to make a modification take affect without restarting nginx?
Apache has a graceful option which can scan for modification in http.conf without restarting Apache. What about nginx?
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Nested Nginx location (prefix blocks in regex blocks) not working
I'm having trouble understanding nested locations in nginx. I have two locations with some configuration directives in common, so rather than repeat the directives, I'd prefer to repeat the URI using ...
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Disable caching when serving static files with Nginx (for development)
We are using Nginx to serve static files on a development platform. As it is a development platform, we'd like to disable caching so that each change is propagated to the server. The configuration of ...
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Nginx - root versus alias, for serving single files?
After many hours getting nginx to serve single files such as robots.txt (hint: clear your browser cache each time), I wound up with two different ways, one using the alias directive, and one using the ...
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Nginx Redirect via Proxy, Rewrite and Preserve URL
In Nginx we have been trying to redirect a URL as follows:
http://example.com/some/path -> http://192.168.1.24
where the user still sees the original URL in their browser. Once the user is ...
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What is the difference between Nginx variables $host, $http_host, and $server_name?
What is the difference between the three Nginx variables $host, $http_host, and $server_name?
I have a rewrite rule where I'm not sure which one I should be using:
location = /vb/showthread.php {
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Why do I need nginx when I have uWSGI
There are many tutorials on how to configure nginx to cooperate with uWGSI when I want to deploy Django application.
But why do I need nginx in this kit? uWSGI itself can serve WSGI Python ...
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What’s the difference between the “mainline” and “stable” branches of nginx?
There seem to be two active branches of the nginx web server: a “mainline” branch (currently 1.9.x) and a “stable” branch (currently 1.8.x). Can anyone provide an official source that describes the ...
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Nginx - Meaning of the ~ (tilde) in the location block of the nginx.conf?
What is the meaning of the tilde after the location block in the nginx configuration?
for example
location ~ ^/download/(.*)$ {
alias /home/website/files/$1;
}
What is the difference between ...
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How to restart Nginx on Mac OS X?
I just installed Nginx on Mac OS X (thanks http://www.kevinworthington.com/nginx-mac-os-snow-leopard-2-minutes/), but how do I restart Nginx on Mac OS X?
Thanks!
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Nginx redirect one path to another
I'm sure this has been asked before, but I can't find a solution that works.
A website has switched CMS services, but has the same domain, how do I set up an nginx rewrite for a single page?
E.g.
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nginx url rewriting: difference between break and last
I don't understand the difference between break and last (flags of rewrite). The documentation is rather abstruse. I've tried to switch between the two in some of my configs, but I couldn't spot any ...
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Remove "www" and redirect to "https" with nginx
I want to create a rule in nginx that does two things:
Removes the "www." from the request URI
Redirects to "https" if the request URI is "http"
There are plenty of examples of how to do each of ...
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nginx real_ip_header and X-Forwarded-For seems wrong
The wikipedia description of the HTTP header X-Forwarded-For is:
X-Forwarded-For: client1, proxy1, proxy2, ...
The nginx documentation for the directive real_ip_header reads, in part:
This ...
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How can I create a location in nginx that works with AND without a trailing slash?
Right now I have this config:
location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.*)$
{
alias /home/phpmyadmin/$1;
}
However, if I visit www.mysite.com/phpmyadmin (note the lack of trailing slash), it won't find what ...
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Dump nginx config from running process?
Apparently, I shouldn't have spent sleepless night trying to debug an application. I wanted to restart my nginx and discovered that its config file is empty. I don't remember truncating it, but fat ...
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nginx: Log complete request / response with all headers?
We have an application server that sometimes hangs. We suspect it is due to a bad request from a client.
Can nginx log the complete request/response (like fiddler captures) to files, so we can see ...
