Nginx configuration file

nginx.conf

# Define the user that will own and run the Nginx server
user  nginx;
# Define the number of worker processes; recommended value is the number of
# cores that are being used by your server
worker_processes  1;

# Define the location on the file system of the error log, plus the minimum
# severity to log messages for
error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
# Define the file that will store the process ID of the main NGINX process
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;


# events block defines the parameters that affect connection processing.
events {
    # Define the maximum number of simultaneous connections that can be opened by a worker process
    worker_connections  1024;
}


# http block defines the parameters for how NGINX should handle HTTP web traffic
http {
    # Include the file defining the list of file types that are supported by NGINX
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    # Define the default file type that is returned to the user
    default_type  text/html;

    # Define the format of log messages.
    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    # Define the location of the log of access attempts to NGINX
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    # Define the parameters to optimize the delivery of static content
    sendfile        on;
    tcp_nopush     on;
    tcp_nodelay    on;

    # Define the timeout value for keep-alive connections with the client
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    # Define the usage of the gzip compression algorithm to reduce the amount of data to transmit
    #gzip  on;

    # Include additional parameters for virtual host(s)/server(s)
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf;
}