• HTTP
• nginx

nginx

About

• HTTP

• http://nginx.org/

• 2-clause BSD-like license

• About nginx

• nginx security advisories

• NGINX Product Documentation

• nginx documentation

  • nginx documentation - Building nginx from Sources

• nginx books

• github.com nginx/nginx

• nginx documentation - Alphabetical index of directives

• Building nginx from Sources - Compile time options

Install

   1 apt install nginx

or install nginx from source

Configure

Basic server configuration

   1 

http2

https://www.nginx.com/blog/http2-module-nginx/

• Binary protocol
  • harder to debug
  • a tick faster
  • a bit less CPU usage
• Multiplexing
  • Lowers overhead of connection establishment
• Header compression
• Prioritization

/etc/nginx/sites-available/vhost.conf

   1 server {
   2     listen 443 ssl http2;
   3     listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
   4 …
   5 }

Streams

The directive stream may only be embedded in the context main.
nginx.org docs - Module ngx_stream_core_module #stream

Modules are included in the main configuration. So we can also include their configuration from there
/etc/nginx/modules-available/51-mod-stream_ff-sync.conf

   1 stream {
   2      upstream syncserver_backends {
   3          server wiki.1a.rockstable.it:8443;
   4      }
   5      server {
   6          listen 8443;
   7          proxy_pass syncserver_backends;
   8      }
   9 }

Now enable the config

   1 ln -s /etc/nginx/modules-available/51-mod-stream_ff-sync.conf \
   2        /etc/nginx/modules-enabled
   3 ### TEST CONFIGURATION
   4 nginx -t
   5 ### RELOAD THE SERVICE
   6 systemctl reload nginx.service