Category: Nginx

To list modules compiled with nginx, you can run nginx -V

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

nginx -V 2>&1 | tr -- - '\n' | grep  _module

Example

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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 no purpose. If you are using Nginx web server, you can remove .html extension from your web page urls with following code.

location / {
    if ($request_uri ~ ^/(.*)\.html$) {
        return 301 /$1;
    }
    try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/ =404;
}

Remove .php extension

To remove .php extension, you can use

location / {
	try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/ @extensionless-php;
	index index.html index.htm index.php;
}

location @extensionless-php {
	rewrite ^(.*)$ $1.php last;
}

Reataining Arguments

To retain arguments, use

return 301 /$1$is_args$args;

This will redirect /mypage.html?name= to /mypage?name=

Serve PHP file with .html extension

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To show the full URL in the nginx access log, add the following

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 a reverse proxy, replace $remote_addr with $http_x_forwarded_for

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By default Nginx listens on all IP address on a server. To make nginx listen on specific IP address, edit nginx configuration file

vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

And VirtualHost/server files for each domain located in folders

/etc/nginx/conf.d => on CentOS/RHEL
/etc/nginx/sites-available => on Debian/Ubuntu

Find

listen 80

Replace with

listen IP_ADDR_HERE:80

IP_ADDR_HERE = your server IP address on which you need nginx listen on.

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Here is Nginx configuration for a laravel application

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.domain.com;
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/domain.com.log;
    root /home/domain.com/html/public;
    index index.html index.php;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/domain.com.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/domain.com-error.log;
    client_max_body_size 1000M;
    proxy_read_timeout 600s;
    fastcgi_read_timeout 600s;
    fastcgi_send_timeout 600s;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    location ~ \.(js|css|png|jpg|gif|swf|ico|pdf|mov|fla|zip|rar)$ {
       try_files $uri =404;
       access_log off;
       expires max;
    }

    location = /robots.txt      { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /favicon.ico    { access_log off; log_not_found off; }  

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
        fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    }
}

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name  domain.com;
    return       301 http://www.domain.com$request_uri;
}

Nginx Config for Laravel Application in sub folder