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NGINX HTTP Server - Fifth Edition
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NGINX HTTP Server - Fifth Edition

by Gabriel Ouiran, Nedelcu, Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald
May 2024
Beginner to intermediate
262 pages
5h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Exploring the HTTP Configuration

At this stage, we have a working NGINX setup—not only is it installed on the system and launched automatically on startup but it’s also organized and optimized with the help of basic directives. It’s now time to go one step further into the configuration by discovering the HTTP core module. This module is an essential component of the HTTP configuration—it allows you to set up websites to be served, also referred to as virtual hosts.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • An introduction to the HTTP core module and its three new blocks
  • Exploring the HTTP core module directives
  • Exploring the directives of HTTP/2
  • Exploring the variables introduced by the HTTP core module
  • Understanding and exploring the ...
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