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 … Read more
To enable CORS in nginx, add the following inside web sites server config. Restart nginx See CORS
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 See Nginx
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 … Read more
To show the full URL in the nginx access log, add the following If you are behind a reverse proxy, replace $remote_addr with $http_x_forwarded_for See Nginx
On a Nginx server, when accessing a long url, i get error HTTP 414 Request-URI Too Large To fix the error, edit vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf inside “http” section, find large_client_header_buffers Replace the line with 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 … Read more
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 vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf Find http { Inside http section, add set_real_ip_from IP_ADDRESS_OF_PROXY_SERVER_HERE; real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For; Example set_real_ip_from 192.168.122.1; real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For; Restart Nginx nginx … Read more
Nginx Location Directive is used to route request to correct files. Match Exact match is used to match an exact URL. server { listen 80 default_server; root /var/www/html; index index.html; server_name _; location /ok/ { root /home/; } } When location is used with no modifiers, then beginning of the URL is matched. In this … Read more
To password protect a website, you need to install htpasswd utility. On Ubuntu/Debian, you can install it with the command Now create a password file with the command It will ask for a password. Edit the configuration file for your website and add the following in the server entry for the website. Restart Nginx. Now … Read more
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 … Read more
To run Laravel Application on a subfolder of a website, use the following configuration. If you run the Laravel application as the main site, see Nginx Config for Laravel Application Here you place the Laravel application in a subdirectory “subFolderApp1”. Example Back to Nginx
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 = … Read more