nginx: How To Block Exploits, SQL Injections, File Injections, Spam, User Agents, Etc.
This short article explains how you can block the most common
exploits, SQL injections, file injections, spam and user agents used by
hackers and bandwidth hoggers from your nginx vhosts with some simple
configuration directives.
After a bit back and forth with configuring Drupal and nginx to work together, I've come up with the below configuration for a site. It works well, both with private and public file systems. However, as I am fairly new to nginx I'd like to hear if there is something with this configuration that I should change (for
Please note!
Do two nginx configuration files operate independently to each other, or can they affect each other in some way?
For example, can I name the upstream block in two configuration files with the same name without causing a conflict?
Trying to decide between these two configs:
Nginx -> HAProxy -> Apache servers
Nginx -> Apache servers
I'm wondering what benefits there are of using the first configuration over the second. I've heard that HAProxy is better at load balancing than Nginx but wasn't able to find any specifics.
Also, how much of a performance difference is there between the first and second option?
I'm currently trying to get nginx to add a header to the response when it is sending some kind of 50* error. I already have an add_header directive on the http block, and that gets respected for all requests except it seems errors.
I'm new to nginx, but over the past couple of days I've been learning about the features and all it has to offer. I'm running nginx in Centos 6.3.
I've installed nginx with php-fpm but have a few questions about users and groups.
When I install nginx it sets the user/group to nginx. I've set up my box to have all the server block accounts (vhosts) in /accounts/example.com/public_html.
I'm having an hard time trying to find out how to reduce this "repeated lines" for my NGinx configuration, just to change one property :
server {
#listen [::]:443 ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
listen 443;
server_name my.website.com;
access_log /var/log/nginx/my.website.com_access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/my.website.com_error.log;
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I'm trying to make a reverse proxy from nginx to apache on my Ubuntu 10.04 server. It is working fine right now with HTML files... the requests are sent directly to apache. But whenever I visit a PHP file, I see a nginx 502 bad gateway error.
Hey i need some help with the Init.d script for Nginx
This is my Nginx files locations -
nginx path prefix: "/usr/local/nginx" nginx binary file: "/usr/local/nginx/nginx"
nginx configuration prefix: "/usr/local/nginx"
nginx configuration file: "/usr/local/nginx/nginx.conf"
nginx pid file: "/usr/local/nginx/nginx.pid"
nginx error log file: "/usr/local/nginx/logs/error.log"
nginx http
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