NGINX Cookbook

How to do it...

1. In order to use the status module, we need to include it as part of the server block directive. You can choose to run in on a different port from your main web server and also restrict via IP, which is what we'll do in our recipe. Here's our configuration:

      server { 
          listen 8188; 
          status_zone status-page; 
 
          allow 192.168.0.0/24; 
          deny all; 
 
          root /usr/share/nginx/html; 
          location = /status.html { } 
          location = / { 
              return 301 /status.html; 
          } 
          location /status { 
              status; 
              status_format json; 
          } 
      } 

This can be placed in the /etc/nginx/conf.d/ directory as a separate file (for example, status.conf), to keep it clean and simple.

2. If you open up a browser and go to http://<serveripaddress>:8188/status.html, you should see a page similar to ...