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Nginx for beginners ​

Installation ​

Windows ​

  • Download mainline version from official website
  • Decompress the zip file at somewhere of your machine.
  • cd to your decompressed folder, run ./nginx.
  • Open localhost:80 in your browser to check if nginx is successfully started.

Serving static content ​

Let's start configuring nginx.conf from scratch. You can find this file in your decompressed folder(./conf/nginx.conf) if you're in windows.

  • First, have a html file on your machine.
html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
 <meta charset="utf-8">
 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
 <title>Hello</title>
</head>
<body>
 <p>Hello from nginx</p>
</body>
</html>
  • Edit your nginx.conf as. Double quote is optional.
nginx
http {
    server {
        listen 8080;
        root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
    }
}

events {}
  • Restart nginx, you should find out that localhost:8080 is the html we made.
bash
./nginx -s reload

Content type ​

All contents are text/plain by default, but this will lead to some issue like isolated css not working for html. So, to serve different types of content, add file extensions matching to content types.

nginx
http {
    types {
        text/css css;
        text/html html;
    }
    server {
        listen 8080;
        root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
    }
}

events {}

However, nginx has predefined many type matching in mime.types. Simply adding include in nginx.conf is just fine.

nginx
http {
    include mime.types;
    server {
        listen 8080;
        root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
    }
}

events {}

Location Context ​

Location is similar to api route that works when we access localhost:port/<route>. However, should match to the folder structure.

Location ​

To access index.html in a different folder, we can make a location in server. - Create a folder product with index.html.

nginx
http {
    include mime.types;
    server {
        listen 8080;
        root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
        location /product {
            root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
        }
    }
}

events {}

Alias ​

To make a alias for a location, since it's a alias, we don;t have to make a folder named 'item'.

nginx
http {
    include mime.types;
    server {
        listen 8080;
        root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
        location /product {
            root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
        }
        location /item {
            alias "path/to/your/parent/folder/product";
        }
    }
}

events {}

Access any file ​

nginx serve index.html by default. So, if index.html is not what we want to access, we should have a way to resolve it. The following config will try to access car/car.html if it exist, or it will fall back to /index.html. If all files are failed, it should show a 404 error page.

nginx
http {
    include mime.types;
    server {
        listen 8080;
        root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
        location /product {
            root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
        }
        location /item {
            alias "path/to/your/parent/folder/product";
        }
        location /car {
            root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
            try_files /car/car.html /index.html =404;
        }
    }
}

events {}

Access using regex ​

nginx supports regex notate with ~* to match dynamic locations.

nginx
http {
    include mime.types;
    server {
        listen 8080;
        root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
        location /product {
            root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
        }
        location /item {
            alias "path/to/your/parent/folder/product";
        }
        location /car {
            root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
            try_files /car/car.html /index.html =404;
        }
        location ~* /id/[0-9] {
            root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
            try_files /index.html =404;
        }
    }
}

events {}

Redirect and Rewrite ​

Redirect ​

Redirecting is jumping from a location to another. The following will redirect to /product/index.html when we access localhost:8080/list.

nginx
http {
    include mime.types;
    server {
        listen 8080;
        root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
        location /product {
            root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
        }
        location /item {
            alias "path/to/your/parent/folder/product";
        }
        location /car {
            root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
            try_files /car/car.html /index.html =404;
        }
        location ~* /id/[0-9] {
            root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
            try_files /index.html =404;
        }
        location /list {
            return 307 /product
        }
    }
}

events {}

Rewrite ​

Rewriting is another way to alias a location but with regex. The following rewrite will mapping all matched location to /count/.

nginx
http {
    include mime.types;
    server {
        listen 8080;
        root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
        location /product {
            root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
        }
        location /item {
            alias "path/to/your/parent/folder/product";
        }
        location /car {
            root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
            try_files /car/car.html /index.html =404;
        }
        location ~* /id/[0-9] {
            root "path/to/your/parent/folder";
            try_files /index.html =404;
        }
        location /list {
            return 307 /product
        }
        rewrite ^/number/(w+) /count/$1;
    }
}

events {}
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