Config virtual host with NGINX in DEBIAN ·

This article, I want to shared what I learn when install a virtual host for NGINX in an Debian server.

Install `nginx`

nginx is fast and lightweight server. In web development nginx mostly was use as web server for static file and reserved proxy.

To install nginx on DEBIAN, using our beloved apt-get

$> sudo apt-get install nginx

Configuration virtual host for nginx

If in our system, we need to server many web application. Eg: port 8212 we server an API serve, on port 8214 we serve web client.

Nginx virtual host is easily to configuration

Firstly, we need to modify /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

$> vim /etc/nginx/nginx.config
user www-data;            # user which nginx with run at
worker_processes 4;       # number of worker
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections 768; # number of connection each worker can handle
}

http {
    # configuration for TCP
    sendfile on;
    tcp_nopush on;
    tcp_nodelay on;
    keepalive_timeout 65;
    types_hash_max_size 2048;

    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type application/octet-stream;

    # logfile
    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

    # gzip config
    gzip on;
    gzip_disable "msie6";
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_proxied any;
    gzip_comp_level 6;
    gzip_buffers 16 8k;
    gzip_http_version 1.1;
    gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

    # virtual host
    # this line is importance, we will include all configuration for
    #   each host in folder /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

Now, we create new configuration for a host. I often create many configuration file in folder /etc/nginx/site-available, and then make soft link to folder /etc/nginx/site-enabled

$> vim /etc/nginx/site-available/contactsync.com
# name our server
upstream contactsync {
    server localhost:4444; # in here, we can create many application
                           # instance, but have some paper tell that
                           # we should create number of instance
                           # equal number of CPU core
}

server {
    listen 80;  # the port server will listen
                # with this config, every request from port 80
                # will redirect to port 4444

    # config log file
    access_log /var/log/nginx/contactsync/contactsync.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/contactsync/contactsync.error.log;

    # config the proxy
    location / {
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_redirect off;

        if (!-f $request_filename) {
            proxy_pass http://contactsync;
            break;
        }
    }
}

# create soft link
$> ln -s /etc/nginx/site-available/contactsync.com /etc/nginx/enabled/contactsyn.com

# restart nginx to apply
$> /etc/init.d/nginx restart

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