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nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a lightweight web server and a reverse proxy server

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Nginx is a high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. The project started in 2002 and became public in 2004. Nowadays it powers several high-visibility sites, such as Netflix, Hulu, Pinterest, CloudFlare, Airbnb, WordPress.com, GitHub, SoundCloud, Zynga, Eventbrite, Zappos, Media Temple, Heroku, RightScale, Engine Yard and NetDNA.

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Nginx as forward proxy for HTTPS

While I was able to successfully configure nginx to proxy HTTP traffic (using this guide), all attempts to proxy HTTPS requests resulted in code 400 (Bad Request). Nginx debug logs weren't helpful at all: 2013/06/05 14:38:33 [info] 74946#0: *589 …
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how to reload nginx - systemctl or nginx -s?

Is there a difference between calling systemctl reload nginx and calling nginx -s reload ? I know that, besides systemd, there are other init systems like SysV and Upstart. So maybe this question applies to them too. Is it preferable to issue this…
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Nginx rewrite rule to remove path node

Let's say a user tries to access a given image on my website using the following url: http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/image1.jpg?someParam=100 i need a rewrite rule to this, removing the 'blog' node from the…
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How do erase the contents of a error.log file but keep the file intact

I want to erase the contents of the file error.log (nginx error log file), but I don't want to actually delete the file. is this possible? running ubuntu
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Why does the percent sign in a URL cause an HTTP 400 Bad Request error?

I stumbled upon this by accident when mistyping the URL for a web page in my web browser. Why does visiting http://example.com/% cause an HTTP 400 Bad Request error to be thrown? Is the server expecting something else after or before the percent…
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Permissions for SSL key?

I'm trying to set up a secure connection (https) in nginx. But I'm a bit worried about the private key's permissions, which aren't mentioned in any tutorial. Should I change them? To what?
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How do I start nginx on port 80 at OS X login?

I installed Nginx using homebrew and after completing the installation the following message was displayed: In the interest of allowing you to run `nginx` without `sudo`, the default port is set to localhost:8080. If you want to host pages on your…
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Can nginx serve SSH and HTTP(S) at the same time on the same port?

Context I have a personal server that I use for the web. I sometimes need to SSH/SFTP to it. Disclamer: I have very little experience with nginx internals. Problem This morning, I figured out that the free wifi in a well-know cafe chain was…
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Configuring nginx to retry a single upstream server

I'm using nginx as a reverse proxy and I would like it to wait some number of seconds and retry a request if the upstream server isn't responding. This way I can restart my upstream server and instead of users seeing 502 bad gateway, their browsers…
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Nginx serves site even if server_name does not match

This is my nginx configuration (running as docker container, in case it matters): events { worker_connections 4096; ## Default: 1024 } http { server { server_name registry.mydomain; listen 80; listen 443 ssl; …
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How to make nginx rewrite URIs in HTTP body content?

This is a follow-on to my earlier question on how to Make nginx reverse proxy 302 redirect to a URI sub-folder instead of root. I have an nginx proxy server that uses the rewrite and proxy_pass directives to proxy external requests to a URL like…
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How to I get variables from location in nginx?

The location from nginx conf: location ~/photos/resize/(\d+)/(\d+) { # Here var1=(\d+), var2=(\d+) } How to I get variables from location in nginx?
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Metallb vs Nginx Ingress in Kubernetes

From what I understand, Metallb is a load balancer that assigns IP address to a service, which can be exposed to the outside world. Nginx Ingress is just like normal nginx, but it resides in kubernetes and provides routing to different routes. My…
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Get Nginx to always serve index

How can I get nginx to always serve index.html no matter the URL? For example, I want the URL https://www.example.me/723738 to always serve https://www.example.me/index.html I don't want to use a re-direct, because the user must still have the…
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can't run nginx in alpine linux (docker)

Well I have set up an alpine linux docker container with nginx on it (apk add nginx) Now I am trying to run nginx. With the simple command nginx This returns the following error: nginx: [emerg] open() "/run/nginx/nginx.pid" failed (2: No such file…
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