Ubuntu Unleashed 2014 Edition: Covering 13.10 and 14.04,Ninth Edition

Configuring the Nginx Server

You can now configure the server. Nginx is most commonly run using Virtual Hosts, like what most people do with Apache these days. The process is similar, with mainly syntax differences.

If you install using the package manager, all configuration files for Nginx are located in /etc/nginx. The primary configuration file is /etc/nginx/nginx.conf. Here is an example of that file:

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user www-data;worker_processes  1;# error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;events {    worker_connections  1024;}http {    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;    default_type  application/octet-stream;    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log;    sendfile        on;    tcp_nopush     on;    #tcp_nodelay     on;