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Mastering NGINX

You're reading from   Mastering NGINX Personalize, customize and configure NGINX to meet the needs of your server

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
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ISBN-13 9781782173311
Length 320 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dimitri Aivaliotis Dimitri Aivaliotis
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing NGINX and Third-Party Modules FREE CHAPTER 2. A Configuration Guide 3. Using the mail Module 4. NGINX as a Reverse Proxy 5. Reverse Proxy Advanced Topics 6. The NGINX HTTP Server 7. NGINX for the Application Developer 8. Integrating Lua with NGINX 9. Troubleshooting Techniques A. Directive Reference
B. The Rewrite Rule Guide C. The NGINX Community D. Persisting Solaris Network Tunings
Index

NGINX global configuration parameters

The global section is used to configure the parameters that affect the entire server and is an exception to the format shown in the preceding section. The global section may include configuration directives, such as user and worker_processes, as well as sections, such as events. There are no open and closing braces ({}) surrounding the global section.

The most important configuration directives in the global context are shown in the following table. These configuration directives will be the ones that you will be dealing with for the most part.

Global configuration directives

Explanation

user

The user and group under which the worker processes run is configured using this parameter. If the group is omitted, a group name equal to that of the user is used.

worker_processes

This directive shows the number of worker processes that will be started. These processes will handle all the connections made by the clients. Choosing the right number depends...

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