Usage

Requirements

nginx version 1.6.0+

There are two ways to make use of the contents of this repository, as a reference or directly as the source for nginx to run from. A number of config snippets are provided allowing you to pick and choose which features to allow/expose - some snippets are dependent on other features in this repository. For example rules that rely on a specific mime type for a given file extension, expect/rely the use of the bundled mime.types file.

Using as a reference

To use as reference requires no special installation steps, download/checkout the repository to a convenient location and adapt your existing nginx configuration incorporating the desired functionality from this repository.

Using directly

To use directly, replace the nginx config directory with this repository. for example:

/etc/init.d/nginx stop
cd /etc
mv nginx nginx-previous
git clone https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx.git nginx
# install-specific edits
/etc/init.d/nginx start

Install specific edits will vary from server to user, see Getting started for a description of the required steps.

Basic structure

This repository has the following structure, which is based on the standard install for a webserver on debian:

.
├── doc
├── h5bp
  ├── basic.conf
  ├── location
	└── ...
├── sites-available
	└── example.com
├── sites-enabled
├── mime.types
└── nginx.conf

Below is a general description of each section

h5bp

This directory contains config snippets (mixins) to be included as desired.

There are two types of config files provided, individual config snippets and combined config files which provide convenient defaults.

basic.conf

This file loads a small subset of the rules provided by this repository to add expires headers, allow cross domain fonts and protect system files from web access.

location folder

Files in this folder contain one or more location directives. They are intended to be loaded in the server context (or, in a nested location block).

sites-available

This directory should contain all of the server definitions that are available for use. About sites-available.

sites-enabled

This directory should contain only symlinks to enable a specific sites-available server. About sites-enabled.

mime.types

The mime.types file is responsible for mapping file extensions to mime types.

nginx.conf

The main nginx config file. About nginx.conf.

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