Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Necessary adjustments

Several core directives deserve to be adjusted carefully upon preparing the initial setup of Nginx on your server. We will review several of these directives and the possible values you may set:

• user root;: This directive specifies that the worker processes will be started as root. It is dangerous for security, as it grants Nginx full permissions over your file system. You need to create a new user account on your system and make use of it here. Recommended value (granted that a www-data user account and group exist on the system) user www-data www-data;.
• worker_processes 1;: With this setting, only one worker process will be started, which implies that all requests will be processed by a unique execution flow. This ...