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# [Nginx Server Configs](https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx)
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**Nginx Server Configs** is a collection of configuration snippets that can help
your server improve the web site's performance and security, while also
ensuring that resources are served with the correct content-type and are
accessible, if needed, even cross-domain.
## Getting Started
Using the Nginx server configs repo directly has a few required steps to be able to work.
* [Nginx Beginners Guide](https://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.html)
* [Nginx Request Processing](https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.html)
### Check `nginx.conf` settings
The first thing to check is that the `nginx.conf` file contains appropriate values for
your specific install.
Most specific variables are:
* `user`
* `error_log`
* `pid`
* `access_log`
### Nginx test and restart
* To verify Nginx config
```shell
$ nginx -t
```
* To verify Nginx config with a custom file
```shell
$ nginx -t -c nginx.conf
```
* To reload Nginx and apply new config
```shell
$ nginx reload
```
### Basic structure
This repository has the following structure:
```
./
├── conf.d/
│ ├── default.conf
│ └── templates/
├── h5bp/
│ ├── basic.conf
│ ├── location/
│ └── .../
├── mime.types
└── nginx.conf
```
* **`conf.d/`**
This directory should contain all of the server definitions.
Except if they are dot prefixed or non .conf extension, all files in this
folder **are** loaded automatically.
* **`templates` folder**
Files in this folder contain a `server{}` template for secure and non-secure hosts.
They are intended to be copied in the `conf.d` folder with all `example.com`
occurrences changed to the target host.
* **`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.
The `basic.conf` file includes the rules which are recommended to always be
defined.
* **`location/`**
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).
* **`mime.types`**
The mime.types file is responsible for mapping file extensions to mime types.
* **`nginx.conf`**
The main Nginx config file.
## Usage
### 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.
### Directly
To use directly, replace the Nginx config directory with this repository. for example:
```shell
nginx stop
cd /etc
mv nginx nginx-previous
git clone https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx.git nginx
# install-specific edits
nginx start
```
### Manage sites
```bash
$ cd /etc/nginx/conf.d
```
* Creating a new site
```bash
$ cp templates/example.com.conf .actual-hostname.conf
$ sed -i 's/example.com/actual-hostname/g' .actual-hostname.conf
```
* Enabling a site
```bash
$ mv .actual-hostname.conf actual-hostname.conf
```
* Disabling a site
```bash
$ mv actual-hostname.conf .actual-hostname.conf
```
```bash
$ nginx reload
```
## Support
* Nginx v**1.8.0**+
## Contributing
Anyone is welcome to [contribute](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md),
however, if you decide to get involved, please take a moment to review
the [guidelines](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md):
* [Bug reports](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#bugs)
* [Feature requests](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#features)
* [Pull requests](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#pull-requests)
## Acknowledgements
[Nginx Server Configs](https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx) is only possible thanks to all the awesome
[contributors](https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx/graphs/contributors)!
## License
The code is available under the [MIT license](LICENSE.txt).