Enable syntax highlight for Nginx conf file in Vim

vim-nginx-conf-highlight.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Highligh Nginx config file in Vim

# Download syntax highlight
mkdir -p ~/.vim/syntax/
wget http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=19394 -O ~/.vim/syntax/nginx.vim

# Set location of Nginx config file
cat > ~/.vim/filetype.vim <<EOF
au BufRead,BufNewFile /etc/nginx/*,/etc/nginx/conf.d/*,/usr/local/nginx/conf/* if &ft == '' | setfiletype nginx | endif
EOF

Thanks.

May want to use cat >> ~/.vim/filetype.vim <<EOF if you have a pre-existing filetype.vim file--the single > output redirection will overwrite the file, double >> will append to it.

thank you =D

for my Vim (8.1) by team+vim@tracker.debian.org only this code will work:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Highligh Nginx config file in Vim

# Download syntax highlight
mkdir -p ~/.vim/syntax/
curl http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=19394 -o ~/.vim/syntax/nginx.vim

# Set location of Nginx config file
cat >> ~/.vim/filetype.vim <<EOF
au BufRead,BufNewFile /etc/nginx/*,/etc/nginx/conf.d/*,/usr/local/nginx/conf/* if &ft == '' | set filetype=nginx | endif
EOF

additionally I add previous fixes

#!/bin/bash
#
# Highligh Nginx config file in Vim

# Download syntax highlight
mkdir -p ~/.vim/syntax/
curl -L http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=19394 -o ~/.vim/syntax/nginx.vim

# Set location of Nginx config file
cat >> ~/.vim/filetype.vim <<EOF
au BufRead,BufNewFile /etc/nginx/*,/etc/nginx/conf.d/*,/usr/local/nginx/conf/* if &ft == '' | set filetype=nginx | endif
EOF

Add curl -L to follow redirects.

Very very useful, thank you very much. Eye candy for my eyes

Quite useful, thank you.

an alternative to filetype.vim file would be having sth like that at the end of nginx config file:

# vi: filetype=nginx

pros: you are not limited to have nginx config in /etc/nginx directory
cons: you need to add this modeline to the file

perfect ubuntu 18.04

👍 now i can see my typo's a bit earlier :-)
for users with vim-plug

cat << EOF > ~/.vim/ftdetect/nginx.vim
au BufRead,BufNewFile /etc/nginx/*,/etc/nginx/conf.d/*,/usr/local/nginx/conf/* if &ft == '' | setfiletype nginx | endif
EOF

it's useful,thanks for that

not sure why its missing, but the standard nginx.conf is not in the filetypes list.
Why would i not use the coloring on any file called nginx.conf?
so i needed
au BufRead,BufNewFile nginx.conf,/etc/nginx/,/etc/nginx/conf.d/,/usr/local/nginx/conf/* if &ft == '' | setfiletype nginx | endif

We use a lot of dockerized / containerized nginx's where the config is never in the standard locations

👍

thanks

🎉👍🏻

an alternative to filetype.vim file would be having sth like that at the end of nginx config file:

# vi: filetype=nginx

pros: you are not limited to have nginx config in /etc/nginx directory cons: you need to add this modeline to the file