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html5bp nginx config for Ubuntu
# Set another default user than root for security reasons
user www-data;
# As a thumb rule: One per CPU. If you are serving a large amount
# of static files, which requires blocking disk reads, you may want
# to increase this from the number of cpu_cores available on your
# system.
#
# The maximum number of connections for Nginx is calculated by:
# max_clients = worker_processes * worker_connections
worker_processes 4;
# PID file
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
# Maximum file descriptors that can be opened per process
# This should be > worker_connections
worker_rlimit_nofile 8192;
events {
# When you need > 8000 * cpu_cores connections, you start optimizing
# your OS, and this is probably the point at where you hire people
# who are smarter than you, this is *a lot* of requests.
worker_connections 8000;
# multi_accept on;
}
http {
# Set the mime-types via the mime.types external file
include mime.types;
# And the fallback mime-type
default_type application/octet-stream;
# Format for our log files
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] $status '
'"$request" $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
# Logging
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
# Hide nginx version
server_tokens off;
# ~2 seconds is often enough for HTML/CSS, but connections in
# Nginx are cheap, so generally it's safe to increase it
keepalive_timeout 20;
# You usually want to serve static files with Nginx
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on; # off may be better for Comet/long-poll stuff
tcp_nodelay off; # on may be better for Comet/long-poll stuff
# Enable Gzip:
gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.0;
gzip_comp_level 5;
gzip_min_length 512;
gzip_buffers 4 8k;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types
# text/html is always compressed by HttpGzipModule
text/css
text/plain
text/x-component
application/javascript
application/json
application/xml
application/xhtml+xml
application/x-font-ttf
application/x-font-opentype
application/vnd.ms-fontobject
image/svg+xml
image/x-icon;
# This should be turned on if you are going to have pre-compressed copies (.gz) of
# static files available. If not it should be left off as it will cause extra I/O
# for the check. It would be better to enable this in a location {} block for
# a specific directory:
# gzip_static on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
gzip_vary on;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}
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