Start Nginx
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nginx |
Stop Nginx
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nginx -s stop |
Reload Nginx
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nginx -s reload |
Test Nginx configuration
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nginx -t |
See Nginx […]
Nginx Commands
Install Nginx from source
Install Requirements CentOS/RHEL/Fedora
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yum install glib2-devel openssl-devel pcre-devel bzip2-devel gzip-devel |
Ubuntu/Debian
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apt-get install libpcre3-dev |
Create nginx user
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useradd -c "Nginx user" -s /bin/false -r -d /var/lib/nginx nginx |
Downoad and insta Nginx You can download latest version of Nginx source code from https://nginx.org/en/download.html To install version 1.19.2, run
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cd /usr/local/src wget https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.19.2.tar.gz tar xvf nginx-1.19.2.tar.gz cd nginx-1.19.2 ./configure --user=nginx --group=nginx --prefix=/usr/share --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/log/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/log/lock/subsys/nginx --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_v2_module make make install |
Test Nginx To start nginx run
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/usr/sbin/nginx |
Configuration file is at
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/etc/nginx/nginx.conf |
See Nginx […]
Install Nginx Proxy Manager
Nginx Proxy Manager is Docker based GUI for managing Nginx reverse proxy. It support LetsEncrypt free SSL. https://nginxproxymanager.com Nginx Proxy Manager Certificate Key is not valid Install Custom SSL on Nginx Proxy Manager To install, create a folder
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mkdir nginx-proxy-manager cd nginx-proxy-manager |
Creaye docker-compose.yaml file
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vi docker-compose.yaml |
add following content
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version: "3" services: app: image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest' restart: always ports: # Public HTTP Port: - '80:80' # Public HTTPS Port: - '443:443' # Admin Web Port: - '81:81' environment: # These are the settings to access your db DB_MYSQL_HOST: "db" DB_MYSQL_PORT: 3306 DB_MYSQL_USER: "npm" DB_MYSQL_PASSWORD: "npm" DB_MYSQL_NAME: "npm" # If you would rather use Sqlite uncomment this # and remove all DB_MYSQL_* lines above # DB_SQLITE_FILE: "/data/database.sqlite" # Uncomment this if IPv6 is not enabled on your host # DISABLE_IPV6: 'true' volumes: - ./data:/data - ./letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt depends_on: - db db: image: jc21/mariadb-aria:latest restart: always environment: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'npm' MYSQL_DATABASE: 'npm' MYSQL_USER: 'npm' MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'npm' volumes: - ./data/mysql:/var/lib/mysql |
If you need to use other ports, for […]
LetsEncrypt SSL On Nginx Password Protected site
When you develop a web site, you will need it password protected so others won’t see or you don’t want google to index the web pages while you are working on it. To password protect a web site in nginx, see Nginx Password Protect a website If you password protect a web site and try […]
Enable CORS in Nginx
To enable CORS in nginx, add following inside web sites sevrer config.
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add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*'; add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true'; add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS'; add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-Mx-ReqToken,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type'; |
Restart nginx
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systemctl restart nginx |
See CORS […]
List installed Modules in Nginx
To list modules compiled with nginx, you can run nginx -V
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nginx -V |
This print nginx version along with configuration used to compile nginx. If you want just the list of modules, you can use following command
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nginx -V 2>&1 | tr -- - '\n' | grep _module |
Example See Nginx […]
Nginx remove html from url
If you have a static website build using plain html files, your url will look like https://yourdomain/page.html. This .html extension is useful for the files when it is on your local computer, it help computer to associate the file with specific application, say your HTML editor. But on a web server this .html extension serve […]
Nginx show full url in access log
To show the full URL in nginx access log, add the following
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log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] ' '"$request_method $scheme://$host$request_uri $server_protocol" ' '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' '"$http_user_agent" $request_time'; |
If you are behind reverse proxy, replace $remote_addr with $http_x_forwarded_for See Nginx […]
Nginx HTTP 414 request-URI too large
On a Nginx server, when accessing a long url, i get error
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HTTP 414 Request-URI Too Large |
To fix the error, edit
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vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf |
inside “http” section, find
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large_client_header_buffers |
Replace the line with
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large_client_header_buffers 4 32k; |
If your URL is very large, you may need to increase the 32k to higher or reduce the url length. Large url like this mostly happend […]
Show Real IP Nginx Behind Reverse Proxy
When your Nginx web server is running behind a reverse proxy, you will see IP of the reverse proxy server as visitor IP in web servers access log. To fix this, edit nginx.conf file
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vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf |
Find
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http { |
Inside http section, add
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set_real_ip_from IP_ADDRESS_OF_PROXY_SERVER_HERE; real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For; |
Example
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set_real_ip_from 192.168.122.1; real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For; |
Restart Nginx
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nginx -s reload |
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