Nginx boilerplate: Quick and elegant nginx setup

I want to share my work on setting up nginx, which may help someone at the start of a new project or eliminate the need to copy the next vhost.



I noted two problems of the overwhelming number of nginx configs that caught my eye:

• "All in one file"
• Duplication of settings

With the help of my approach, I hope these and many other problems will be eliminated.



Before collecting all the developments in a separate project, I was looking for something similar, but nothing worthwhile was found.



The project was called "Nginx boilerplate" . And, by analogy with HTML5 Boilerplate , it serves as a quick start when setting up a new virtual host.

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In essence, this is a set of configs that provides:

• Logical branched nginx configuration file structure
• Optimization of default settings
• Templates for limiting the frequency of requests and the number of connections
• Web server-level backend response caching
• A number of predefined locations for various tasks and requirements.
• Improved logging

For example, the default server looks like this at the moment:

server { listen 80 default_server; server_name ""; root /var/www/nginx-bp/test/www/; include nginx-bp/cache.conf; include nginx-bp/limits/methods.conf; include nginx-bp/locations/php.conf; include nginx-bp/locations/favicon.conf; include nginx-bp/locations/static.conf; include nginx-bp/locations/system.conf; location / { include nginx-bp/logs/bots.conf; } } 

If you have some cool recipes for nginx - join us!

References:

• Gihab project
• Slides + report text