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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

The virtual server section

Any context beginning with the keyword server is considered a virtual server section. It describes a logical separation of a set of resources that will be delivered under a different server_name directive. These virtual servers respond to the HTTP requests, and are contained within the http section.

A virtual server is defined by a combination of the listen and server_name directives. The listen directive defines an IP address/port combination or path to a UNIX-domain socket:

listen address[:port];
listen port;
listen unix:path;

The listen directive uniquely identifies a socket binding under NGINX. There are a number of optional parameters that listen can take:

The listen parameters

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default_server

This parameter defines this address/port combination as being the default value for the requests bound here.

 

setfib

This parameter sets the corresponding FIB for the listening socket.

This parameter is only supported on FreeBSD and...

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