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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 HTTP server section

The HTTP server section, or the HTTP configuration context, is available unless you have built NGINX without the HTTP module (--without-http). This section controls all aspects of working with the HTTP module and will probably be the one that you will use the most.

The configuration directives found in this section deals with handling the HTTP connections. As such, there are quite a number of directives defined by this module. We will divide these directives up by type, to be able to talk about them more easily.

Client directives

This set of directives deals with the aspects of the client connection itself, as well as with different types of client.

The HTTP client directives

Explanation

chunked_transfer_encoding

This directive allows disabling the standard HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding in responses to clients.

client_body_buffer_size

This directive is used to set a buffer size for the client request body that is larger than the default two memory pages...

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