Amplify – NGINX Monitoring Made Easy
Nginx amplify is a collection of useful tools for extensively monitoring a open source Nginx web server and NGINX Plus. With NGINX Amplify you can monitor performance, keep track of systems running Nginx and...
Category: Nginx
Fix “The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port” Error in Nginx
In this article, we will show how to solve the “400 Bad Request: The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port” in Nginx HTTP server. This error normally arises when you try to...
How to Run Multiple Websites with Different PHP Versions in Nginx
Sometimes PHP developers want to build and run different websites/applications using different versions of PHP on the same web server. As a Linux system administrator, you are required to setup a environment where you...
How to Configure Basic HTTP Authentication in Nginx
Basic HTTP authentication is a security mechanism to restrict access to your website/application or some parts of it by setting up simple username/password authentication. It can be used essentially to protect the whole HTTP...
How to Configure Custom Access and Error Log Formats in Nginx
Nginx HTTP server has a phenomenal logging facility which is highly customizable. In this article, we will explain how to configure you own formats for access and error logs for Nginx in Linux. The...
How to Hide Nginx Server Version in Linux
In this short article, we will show you how hide Nginx server version on error pages and in the “Server HTTP” response header field in Linux. This is one of the key recommended practices...
How to Secure Nginx with SSL and Let’s Encrypt in FreeBSD
In this guide we’ll discuss how to secure Nginx web server in FreeBSD with TLS/SSL certificates offered for by Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority. We’ll also show you how to automatically renew the Lets’ Encrypt...
How to Install Nginx on CentOS 7
NGINX (short for Engine X) is a free, open-source and powerful HTTP web server and reverse proxy with an event-driven (asynchronous) architecture. It is written using C programming language and runs on Unix-like operating...
Install Varnish Cache 5.1 for Nginx on Debian and Ubuntu
Varnish Cache (also called Varnish) is an open source, HTTP accelerator which stores web pages in memory so web servers don’t have to create the same web page over and over again when requested...
How to Install Varnish Cache 5.2 for Nginx on CentOS 7
Varnish Cache (also referred to as Varnish) is an open source, high-performance HTTP accelerator designed for speeding up web servers. In our last article, we’ve explained how to setup Varnish Cache for Apache web...
