nginx

1. Beginner's Guide

   Starting, stopping, and reloading nginx, config file structure, serving static content, and basic proxying.

2. Configuration Contexts and Core

   Main, events, http, server, and location contexts, worker processes, and directive inheritance.

3. Server and Location Matching

   Server selection, server_name, listen, location matching order, and try_files.

4. Reverse Proxy

   proxy_pass, proxy headers, timeouts, buffering, and proxy caching.

5. Upstream and Load Balancing

   Upstream server groups, round-robin, least_conn, ip_hash, weights, and passive health checks.

6. SSL/TLS

   Certificates, protocols, ciphers, OCSP stapling, HTTP/2, and HTTPS redirects.

7. Rewrite and Redirect

   rewrite, return, if, and set directives and regular expressions.

8. Rate and Connection Limiting

   limit_req zones, burst, and limit_conn for abuse protection.

9. Compression and Static Files

   gzip compression, caching headers, and serving static assets efficiently.

10. FastCGI, uWSGI and WebSocket

    Proxying WebSocket connections and FastCGI backends such as PHP-FPM.

11. TCP/UDP Stream Proxying

    Layer 4 proxying and load balancing.

12. Logging and Variables

    access_log formats, error_log levels, and built-in variables.

13. Access Control and Auth

    allow/deny, basic authentication, auth_request subrequests, and headers for security.

14. Control and Debugging

    Signals, graceful reload, binary upgrade, and debug logging.

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