Configuring Nginx
Now that you know how to install Nginx and the structure of its installation, we can study how to configure Nginx. Simplicity of configuration is one of the reasons Nginx is popular among webmasters, because this saves them a lot of time.
In a nutshell, Nginx configuration files are simply sequences of directives that can take up to eight space-separated arguments, for example:
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
In the configuration file, the directives are delimited by a semicolon (;) from one another. Some of the directives may have a block instead of a semicolon. A block is delimited by curly brackets ({}). A block can contain arbitrary text data, ...
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