Nginx Cheat Sheet

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1tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log

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1server {
2        access_log /path/to/file.log;
3
4        access_log on;
5}

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1server {
2        listen              443 ssl;
3        server_name         www.app.example.com;
4        ssl_certificate {CERTIFICATE_PATH};  # example:/etc/nginx/app.example.com.crt
5        ssl_certificate_key {CERTIFICATE_KEY_PATH};  # example:/etc/nginx/app.example.com.key
6
7        #...
8}

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1server {
2        gzip on;  # Turn on, off gzip compression
3        client_max_body_size 100M;  # Limit client body size to 100M
4}

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1server {
2        server_name static.example.com;
3        location / {
4                root /path/to/website;
5        }
6
7}

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1error_page  404              /404.html;
2
3        location = /404.html {
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5            root   /usr/share/nginx/foo;
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7        }
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11        # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
12
13        #
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15        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
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17        location = /50x.html {
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19            root   /usr/share/nginx/foo;
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21        }