Optimize content delivery via Nginx

Optimize via Nginx

# This decleared upstream app_server is referenced
# below. Its a declare once, use many times kinda thing

upstream app_server {
    server 127.0.0.1:9000 fail_timeout=0;
}

# server configurations begins

server {
    # Nginx should listen to port 80, which is http
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

    # by default root is below
    # root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    # but we declare our own root directory,
    # pointing to where we have our project directory

    # the root is important
    root /home/portfolio;

    # this part isn't really necessary
    # Django uses its own template directories
    index index.html index.htm;

    # http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#client_max_body_size
    client_max_body_size 4G;

    # self-explanatory
    server_name khophi.co www.khophi.co;
    
    error_log /home/nginx/nginx_error.log warn;

    # http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#keepalive_timeout
    keepalive_timeout 5;

    # Your Django project's media files - amend as required
    location /media  {
        alias /home/portfolio/media;
    }

    # your Django project's static files
    location /static {
	alias /home/portfolio/static;
    }

    # Nginx caching of the file extensions listed below.
    # Caches for 30days
    location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js)$ {
	expires 30d;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_redirect off;
        proxy_pass http://app_server; # referencing the app_server above
    }

    gzip on;
    gzip_disable "msie6";
    gzip_comp_level 6;
    gzip_min_length 1100;
    gzip_buffers 16 8k;
    gzip_proxied any;
    gzip_types text/plain aplication/xml text/css tex/js text/xml application/x-javascript text/javascript application/javascript application/json application/xml+rss;

}