Questions relating to Nginx, an open source Web Server and reverse proxy server.
Questions tagged [nginx]
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What is the best way to uninstall nginx
I'm trying to add new module to nginx with naxsi, but I should reinstall nginx. What is the better way of removing nginx?
Shuo
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What is the difference between the core, full, extras and light packages for nginx?
nginx on Ubuntu is a virtual package provided by one of five packages from the official repositories (at least as of 14.04, defaulting to nginx-core, I believe):
$ apt-cache depends nginx | tail -n+2 | cut -d: -f 2 | sort -u
nginx-core
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muru
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What file permissions should I set on web root?
I use Ubuntu Server 10.10 and have installed Nginx web server with apt-get install nginx. It creates a default web page at /var/www/nginx-default/ and that directory has the permissions drwxr-xr-x 2 root root.
When I access the default site on…
Jonas
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Multiple websites on nginx, one IP
So I'm using digital ocean and nginx. I want to host multiple websites (my projects) but dont want to buy a domain for each one.
Is there a way to host multiple websites on nginx and digital ocean while accessing them using that one ip?
Bros Code
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After installing nginx with Passenger support in '/opt', why won't it start from 'init.d'?
I went through a tutorial http://craiccomputing.blogspot.com/2010/10/passenger-3-nginx-and-rvm-on-mac-os-x.html and everything was ok. There were no errors.
Nginx with Passenger support was successfully installed.
The Nginx configuration file…
Alex Malex
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how to install nginx after removed it manually
I have installed nginx using apt
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx
Then I used whereis nginx and…
april
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Hotspot Login - http://nmcheck.gnome.org - 404 Not Found nginx/118.0
I am new to linux, maybe someone can help me out with this new challenge.
A white screen randomly pops up with the following info
Hotspot Login
http://nmcheck.gnome.org
404 Not Found
nginx/118.0
Will sudo apt-get install nginx solve the issue?
I…
Zek
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Nginx: Failed to start A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
I recently tried to install LetsEncrypt certificate, but I couldn't start nginx again. when I run the command service nginx status.
I get this error message:
nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
Loaded: loaded…
ranjith
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Where's an appropriate place to keep my nginx cache on Ubuntu?
Nginx specifies https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_cache_path: /data/nginx/cache but that doesn't see like a normal place to store anything on ubuntu. Another place suggest /tmp/nginx.
What's an appropriate…
Kit Sunde
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Nginx - 301 moved permanently "problem"
As a Nginx noob, I have a problem which I can't solve.
In Nginx website configuration I have:
server {
listen 443;
listen [::]:443;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/website.eu/fullchain.pem;
…
JanezKranjski
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Nginx does not start: "host not found"
Every time I turn on my computer my nginx is not activated:
● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result:…
Guilherme Lima
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Cannot access a directory on my webserver (nginx: 403 forbidden)
I installed nginx and all php extensions.
My web directory is /usr/share/nginx/www/
Browsing to http://localhost shows "Welcome to nginx"
Browsing to http://localhost/vnstat/ shows 403 forbidden
ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1631 Oct 19 15:08…
SunnyJimor
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Nginx index.html gets overwritten with default index.html file
I'm running Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04. I have my website installed in the default /usr/share/nginx/html directory. My website works fine for several days and then the system automatically overwrites my websites index.html file with the default Nginx…
Slick
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Recompile Nginx with nginx-push-stream-module?
I've installed Nginx on Ubuntu with apt-get. Now i need to somehow add the module:
Their install suggests to recompile Nginx with the module: https://github.com/wandenberg/nginx-push-stream-module/blob/master/README.textile
How can i do that when i…
leslie
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Nginx loads index.html automatically without being instructed to
http://localhost:8001/whatever loads /var/www/nginx.html
but
http://localhost:8001 loads /var/www/index.html
According to the grep result, there is no uncommented index.html mentioned whatsoever.
What I expect is to load nginx.html in the second…
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