Basic nginx configuration #nginx #configuration

nginx.conf

worker_processes  1;
error_log /dev/stdout info;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    # Hide nginx version information.
    server_tokens off;
    access_log /dev/stdout;
    # Specify MIME types for files.
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    # Update charset_types to match updated mime.types.
    # text/html is always included by charset module.
    charset_types text/css text/plain text/vnd.wap.wml application/javascript application/json application/rss+xml application/xml;

    # How long to allow each connection to stay idle.
    # Longer values are better for each individual client, particularly for SSL,
    # but means that worker connections are tied up longer.
    keepalive_timeout 20s;

    # Speed up file transfers by using sendfile() to copy directly
    # between descriptors rather than using read()/write().
    # For performance reasons, on FreeBSD systems w/ ZFS
    # this option should be disabled as ZFS's ARC caches
    # frequently used files in RAM by default.
    sendfile        on;

    # Don't send out partial frames; this increases throughput
    # since TCP frames are filled up before being sent out.
    tcp_nopush      on;

    # Enable gzip compression.
    gzip on;

    # Compression level (1-9).
    # 5 is a perfect compromise between size and CPU usage, offering about
    # 75% reduction for most ASCII files (almost identical to level 9).
    gzip_comp_level    5;

    # Don't compress anything that's already small and unlikely to shrink much
    # if at all (the default is 20 bytes, which is bad as that usually leads to
    # larger files after gzipping).
    gzip_min_length    256;

    # Compress data even for clients that are connecting to us via proxies,
    # identified by the "Via" header (required for CloudFront).
    gzip_proxied       any;

    # Tell proxies to cache both the gzipped and regular version of a resource
    # whenever the client's Accept-Encoding capabilities header varies;
    # Avoids the issue where a non-gzip capable client (which is extremely rare
    # today) would display gibberish if their proxy gave them the gzipped version.
    gzip_vary          on;

    # Compress all output labeled with one of the following MIME-types.
    gzip_types
    application/atom+xml
    application/javascript
    application/json
    application/ld+json
    application/manifest+json
    application/rss+xml
    application/vnd.geo+json
    application/vnd.ms-fontobject
    application/x-font-ttf
    application/x-web-app-manifest+json
    application/xhtml+xml
    application/xml
    font/opentype
    image/bmp
    image/svg+xml
    image/x-icon
    text/cache-manifest
    text/css
    text/plain
    text/vcard
    text/vnd.rim.location.xloc
    text/vtt
    text/x-component
    text/x-cross-domain-policy;

    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name localhost;
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;


        # Any route that doesn't have a file extension (e.g. /devices)
        location / {
            try_files $uri /index.html;
        }
        location = /index.html {
            root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
            index index.html;
        }
    }
}