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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

Generating images


Instead of writing an image manipulation module for your application, you can configure NGINX to handle some simple transformations. If your image-manipulation needs are as simple as rotating an image, resizing it, or cropping it, NGINX is capable of doing this for you.

To make use of this functionality, you need to have installed the libgd library, and enabled the image_filter module at compile time (--with-http_image_filter_module). If that is the case, you now have use of the directives in the following table:

Image filter directives

Explanation

empty_gif

This directive causes a 1x1 pixel transparent GIF to be emitted for that location directive.

image_filter

This directive transforms an image, according to one of the following parameters:

  • off: This parameter turns off image transformation.

  • test: This parameter ensures that responses are either GIF, JPEG, or PNG images. If not, an error 415 (Unsupported Media Type) is returned.

  • size: This parameter emits information...

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