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Enable Expire header in Nginx
Answer:
Enabling Expire header for static contents is useful to reduce the loading of your web server.
If you are using nginx, it is easy by adding the following lines in your nginx.conf
location ~* \.(ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
expires max;
}
So all files with the above extensions will be delivered with the maximum expire header.
If you want user to update the cached contents, make sure you have change the path (i.e. rename) of these resources.
How to change the nginx log format?
Answer:
Firstly, you need to define a valid log format for nginx, e.g.
log_format foo '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
'"$request" $status $bytes_sent '
'"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"';
Then, you need to link that format with your log file:
access_log /var/logs/nginx-test-access.log foo;
Enable gzip compression in Nginx
Answer:
Enabling gzip compression for text based output such as HTML can greatly improve the response of user.
If you are using nginx, it is easy by adding the following lines in your nginx.conf
gzip on;
gzip_min_length 1000;
gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private auth;
gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/javascript text/xml application/xml;
Installing Nginx in Ubuntu
Answer:
1. Using aptitude
# sudo aptitude install nginx
2. Start it
# sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start
3. Stop it
# sudo /etc/init.d/nginx stop
4. Restart it
# sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
Adding SSL suport in Nginx
Answer:
Assume you have got your certificate file (server.crt) from a CA, and you also have a private key (server.key).
1. Compile Nginx to support SSL
# ./configure --with-http_ssl_module
2. Add the following line in nginx.conf
server {
server_name YOUR_DOMAINNAME_HERE;
listen 443;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /usr/local/nginx/conf/server.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /usr/local/nginx/conf/server.key;
}
3. Restart Nginx
Reference: http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpSslModule
