Questions tagged [nginx]
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From inside of a Docker container, how do I connect to the localhost of the machine?
I have a Nginx running inside a docker container. I have a MySql running on the host system. I want to connect to the MySql from within my container. MySql is only binding to the localhost device.
Is ...
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Node.js + Nginx - What now?
I've set up Node.js and Nginx on my server. Now I want to use it, but, before I start there are 2 questions:
How should they work together? How should I handle the requests?
There are 2 concepts for ...
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Nginx -- static file serving confusion with root & alias
I need to serve my app through my app server at 8080, and my static files from a directory without touching the app server.
# app server on port 8080
# nginx listens on port 8123
server {
...
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Nginx no-www to www and www to no-www
I am using nginx on Rackspace cloud following a tutorial and having searched the net and so far can't get this sorted.
I want www.mysite.example to go to mysite.example as normal in .htaccess for SEO ...
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Where can I find the error logs of nginx, using FastCGI and Django?
I'm using Django with FastCGI + nginx. Where are the logs (errors) stored in this case?
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(13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream:[nginx]
I am working with configuring Django project with Nginx and Gunicorn.
While I am accessing my port gunicorn mysite.wsgi:application --bind=127.0.0.1:8001 in Nginx server, I am getting the following ...
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nginx - nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
All of a sudden I am getting the below nginx error
* Restarting nginx
* Stopping nginx nginx
...done.
* Starting nginx nginx
nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
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NGinx Default public www location?
I have worked with Apache before, so I am aware that the default public web root is typically /var/www/.
I recently started working with nginx, but I can't seem to find the default public web root.
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upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream
I am getting these kind of errors:
2014/05/24 11:49:06 [error] 8376#0: *54031 upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream, client: 107.21.193.210, server: aamjanata.com,...
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nginx error connect to php5-fpm.sock failed (13: Permission denied)
I update nginx to 1.4.7 and php to 5.5.12, After that I got the 502 error. Before I update everything works fine.
nginx-error.log
2014/05/03 13:27:41 [crit] 4202#0: *1 connect() to unix:/var/run/...
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Kubernetes service external ip pending
I am trying to deploy nginx on kubernetes, kubernetes version is v1.5.2,
I have deployed nginx with 3 replica, YAML file is below,
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: ...
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How to clear the cache of nginx?
I use nginx to as the front server, I have modified the CSS files, but nginx is still serving the old ones.
I have tried to restart nginx, to no success and I have Googled, but not found a valid way ...
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Nginx 403 error: directory index of [folder] is forbidden
I have 3 domain names and am trying to host all 3 sites on one server (a Digital Ocean droplet) using Nginx.
mysite1.name
mysite2.name
mysite3.name
Only 1 of them works. The other two result in 403 ...
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Configure nginx with multiple locations with different root folders on subdomain
I'm looking to serve the root url of a subdomain and directory of a subdomain to two different folders on my server. Here is the simple set-up that I have and is not working...
server {
index ...
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How can I have same rule for two locations in NGINX config?
How can I have same rule for two locations in NGINX config?
I have tried the following
server {
location /first/location/ | /second/location/ {
..
..
}
}
but nginx reload threw this error:
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nginx - client_max_body_size has no effect
nginx keeps saying client intended to send too large body. Googling and RTM pointed me to client_max_body_size. I set it to 200m in the nginx.conf as well as in the vhost conf, restarted Nginx a ...
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What does upstream mean in nginx?
upstream app_front_static {
server 192.168.206.105:80;
}
Never seen it before, anyone knows, what it means?
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nginx missing sites-available directory
I installed Nginx on Centos 6 and I am trying to set up virtual hosts. The problem I am having is that I can't seem to find the /etc/nginx/sites-available directory.
Is there something I need to do ...
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NGINX: upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream
I have Puma running as the upstream app server and Riak as my background db cluster. When I send a request that map-reduces a chunk of data for about 25K users and returns it from Riak to the app, I ...
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Have nginx access_log and error_log log to STDOUT and STDERR of master process
Is there a way to have the master process log to STDOUT STDERR instead of to a file?
It seems that you can only pass a filepath to the access_log directive:
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log
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What's the difference of $host and $http_host in Nginx
In Nginx, what's the difference between variables $host and $http_host.
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Possible reason for NGINX 499 error codes
I'm getting a lot of 499 NGINX error codes. I see that this is a client side issue. It is not a problem with NGINX or my uWSGI stack. I note the correlation in uWSGI logs when a get a 499.
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Nginx 403 forbidden for all files
I have nginx installed with PHP-FPM on a CentOS 5 box, but am struggling to get it to serve any of my files - whether PHP or not.
Nginx is running as www-data:www-data, and the default "Welcome to ...
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Nginx reverse proxy causing 504 Gateway Timeout
I am using Nginx as a reverse proxy that takes requests then does a proxy_pass to get the actual web application from the upstream server running on port 8001.
If I go to mywebsite.example or do a ...
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nginx: [emerg] "server" directive is not allowed here
I have reconfigured nginx but I can't get it to restart using the following configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.example.com;
return 301 $scheme://example.com$request_uri;
}
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React-router and nginx
I am transitioning my react app from webpack-dev-server to nginx.
When I go to the root url "localhost:8080/login" I simply get a 404 and in my nginx log I see that it is trying to get:
my-nginx-...
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nginx: how to not exit if "host not found in upstream"?
We have several rails apps under common domain in Docker, and we use nginx to direct requests to specific apps.
our_dev_server.com/foo # proxies to foo app
our_dev_server.com/bar # proxies to bar
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How to redirect to a different domain using Nginx?
How can I redirect mydomain.example and any subdomain *.mydomain.example to www.adifferentdomain.example using Nginx?
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NGINX to reverse proxy websockets AND enable SSL (wss://)?
I'm so lost and new to building NGINX on my own but I want to be able to enable secure websockets without having an additional layer.
I don't want to enable SSL on the websocket server itself but ...
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Nginx serves .php files as downloads, instead of executing them
I am installing a website in a droplet (Digital Ocean). I have an issue for install NGINX with PHP properly. I did a tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-...
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How do I prevent a Gateway Timeout with FastCGI on Nginx
I am running Django, FastCGI, and Nginx. I am creating an api of sorts that where someone can send some data via XML which I will process and then return some status codes for each node that was sent ...
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Nginx: stat() failed (13: permission denied)
I am using the default config while adding the specific directory with nginx installed on my ubuntu 12.04 machine.
server {
#listen 80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
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How to run Nginx within a Docker container without halting?
I have Nginx installed on a Docker container, and am trying to run it like this:
docker run -i -t -p 80:80 mydockerimage /usr/sbin/nginx
The problem is that the way Nginx works, is that the initial ...
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How can I tell if my server is serving GZipped content?
I have a webapp on a NGinx server. I set gzip on in the conf file and now I'm trying to see if it works. YSlow says it's not, but 5 out of 6 websites that do the test say it is. How can I get a ...
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Increasing client_max_body_size in Nginx conf on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
I'm running into "413 Request Entity Too Large" errors when posting files larger than 10MB to our API running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
I've done quite a bit of research and believe that I need to up ...
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413 Request Entity Too Large - File Upload Issue
I am trying to upload 30MB file on my server and its not working.
When I upload 30MB file, the page loads "Page Not Found"
When I upload a 3MB file, I receive "413 Request Entity Too Large" with ...
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nginx: [emerg] could not build the server_names_hash, you should increase server_names_hash_bucket_size
I'm in the process of setting up a new server. The web server of my choice is NGINX. I want to add the domain (e.g. example.com) as a virtual host. I already have two other domains in there and it ...
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Locate the nginx.conf file my nginx is actually using
Working on a client's server where there are two different versions of nginx installed. I think one of them was installed with the brew package manager (its an osx box) and the other seems to have ...
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How to edit nginx.conf to increase file size upload
I want to increase the maximum file size that can be uploaded.
After doing some research online, I found that you have to edit the file 'nginx.conf'.
The only way I can currently access this file is ...
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nginx.service failed because the control process exited
nginx.service failed because the control process exited
$ systemctl status nginx.service
nginx.service - Startup script for nginx service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; ...
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nginx: send all requests to a single html page
Using nginx, I want to preserve the url, but actually load the same page no matter what. I will use the url with History.getState() to route the requests in my javascript app. It seems like it ...
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SSL: error:0B080074:x509 certificate routines:X509_check_private_key:key values mismatch
I'm not able to setup SSL. I've Googled and I found a few solutions but none of them worked for me. I need some help please...
Here's the error I get when I attempt to restart nginx:
root@s17925268:~...
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How can query string parameters be forwarded through a proxy_pass with nginx?
upstream apache {
server 127.0.0.1:8080;
}
server{
location ~* ^/service/(.*)$ {
proxy_pass http://apache/$1;
proxy_redirect off;
}
}
The above snippet will redirect requests ...
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nginx error "conflicting server name" ignored [closed]
server {
#listen 80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
#listen [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
#root /usr/share/nginx/www;
root /home/ubuntu/node-...
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Default nginx client_max_body_size
I have been getting the nginx error:
413 Request Entity Too Large
I have been able to update my client_max_body_size in the server section of my nginx.conf file to 20M and this has fixed the issue. ...
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nginx showing blank PHP pages
I have setup an nginx server with php5-fpm. When I try to load the site I get a blank page with no errors. Html pages are served fine but not php. I tried turning on display_errors in php.ini but ...
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nginx server_name wildcard or catch-all
I have an instance of nginx running which serves several websites. The first is a status message on the server's IP address. The second is an admin console on admin.domain.com. These work great. Now I'...
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API gateway vs. reverse proxy
In order to deal with the microservice architecture, it's often used alongside a Reverse Proxy (such as nginx or apache httpd) and for cross cutting concerns implementation API gateway pattern is ...
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How to start nginx via different port(other than 80)
Hi I am a newbie on nginx, I tried to set it up on my server(running Ubuntu 4), which already has apache running.
So after I apt-get install it, I tried to start nginx. Then I get the message like ...
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