Learn how to set up and configure Nginx and take it from there. If you’re into Nginx, you’re sure to find a lot of essential tutorials below.
Monitor and analyze web server logs with open source real-time log analyzer – GoAccess Web troubleshooting is fun and can be frustrating if you are not equipped with right tools. If you are supporting heavy traffic website then often you need to analyze and monitor web servers logs for performance & capacity planning. This is…
Configure Apache/Nginx to host multiple websites If you are on dedicated or VPS like DigitalOcean or any other server and planning to host multiple websites on a single server then here is how you can do it either with Apache HTTP or Nginx web server. This assumes you have already mapped DNS to your host,…
If you are hosting your website on VPS like DigitalOcean or dedicated server then, you will be given dedicated IP by hosting provider. This means your website is accessible through domain and IP both which could cause duplicate content if search engine indexes both URL and IP. Duplicate content is not good for SEO, and…
Setting up a website on VPS is always fun. I selected DigitalOcean for Best Flare, and while uploading the WordPress theme, I got request entity too large error. Are you in the same situation? Error, which I got: Let’s find out how large was requested entity. Login to Nginx server Go to error file log location. Default…
HTTP Status Code is returned when an HTTP request is made to the server. The server returns an HTP Status Code in the response to your request. There are five classes of HTTP Status Code as following. Informational – 1XX Success – 2XX Redirection – 3XX Client Error – 4XX Server Error – 5XX Let’s…
A step-by-step guide to installing Nginx in UNIX platforms. Nginx was released in 2004 and since then growing rapidly. Nginx holds more than 36% market share in web servers. Let’s take a look at installation procedure for various UNIX distro. Ubuntu 16.x/17.x Ensure you are logged in as a root Execute the following command apt-get install nginx…
I encountered the following error in Nginx. $./nginx ./nginx: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory $ If you are getting above error while starting Nginx, you can fix by following. This happens due to following three reasons. You don’t have PCRE installed Nginx was not…
Mask Nginx version details from the HTTP Response Header. In default NGINX configuration, Server header banner is ON which exposes what version of Nginx you are using. This is considered as information leakage vulnerability. If you are working on auditing or fixing a security issue, then you will be asked to get rid of a version…
Add X-Frame-Options in HTTP header to secure NGINX from Clickjacking attack Clickjacking is a well-known web application vulnerabilities. In my last post, I talked about how to secure Apache Web Server, IBM HTTP Server & .htaccess and some of you asked about Nginx. So here you go… The X-Frame-Options in HTTP response header can be used to indicate…
