You can send nginx variable values via headers. Handy for development. add_header X-uri “$uri”; and you’ll see in your browser’s response headers: X-uri:/index.php I sometimes do this during local development. It’s also handy for telling you if a subsection is getting executed or not. Just sprinkle it inside your clauses to see if they’re getting … Read more
This is likely the most efficient way to do what you want, without the use of any regular expressions: location = /en { return 302 /en/; } location /en/ { proxy_pass http://luscious/; # note the trailing slash here, it matters! }
I don’t think that there is a way to explicitly invalidate cached items, but here is an example of how to do the rest. Update: As mentioned by Piotr in another answer, there is a cache purge module that you can use. You can also force a refresh of a cached item using nginx’s proxy_cache_bypass … Read more
If you have installed the nginx package from the Ubuntu repositories, you will have two directories. /etc/nginx/sites-enabled and /etc/nginx/sites-available. In the main nginx configuration, /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, you have the following line: include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf; So basically to list all available virtualhosts, you can run the following command: ls /etc/nginx/sites-available To activate one of them, run the following … Read more
The sites-* folders are managed by nginx_ensite and nginx_dissite. For Apache httpd users who find this with a search, the equivalents is a2ensite/a2dissite. The sites-available folder is for storing all of your vhost configurations, whether or not they’re currently enabled. The sites-enabled folder contains symlinks to files in the sites-available folder. This allows you to … Read more
Note: prepend sudo if not root Using SysV Init scripts directly: /etc/init.d/php-fpm restart # typical /etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart # debian-style /etc/init.d/php7.0-fpm restart # debian-style PHP 7 Using service wrapper script service php-fpm restart # typical service php5-fpm restart # debian-style service php7.0-fpm restart # debian-style PHP 7 Using Upstart (e.g. ubuntu): restart php7.0-fpm # typical (ubuntu … Read more
Run service nginx reload or /etc/init.d/nginx reload It will do a hot reload of the configuration without downtime. If you have pending requests, then there will be lingering nginx processes that will handle those connections before it dies, so it’s an extremely graceful way to reload configs. Sometimes you may want to prepend with sudo
Yes, you can location / { return 200 ‘gangnam style!’; # because default content-type is application/octet-stream, # browser will offer to “save the file”… # if you want to see reply in browser, uncomment next line # add_header Content-Type text/plain; }
You can combine this into one server block like so: server { listen 80; listen 443 default_server ssl; # other directives } Official How-To
Nginx has to be compiled with http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpHeadersModule (default on Ubuntu and some other Linux distros). Then you can do this location ~* \.(eot|ttf|woff|woff2)$ { add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *; }