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authorOleg Pudeyev <oleg@bsdpower.com>2011-02-24 15:26:06 -0500
committerOleg Pudeyev <oleg@bsdpower.com>2011-03-06 18:22:13 -0500
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[ticket/10069] Improvements to sample nginx configuration.
Most of these were contributed by burningbunny: https://github.com/burningbunny PHPBB3-10069
Diffstat (limited to 'phpBB/docs/nginx.sample.conf')
-rw-r--r--phpBB/docs/nginx.sample.conf33
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/phpBB/docs/nginx.sample.conf b/phpBB/docs/nginx.sample.conf
index 2a11e057c5..40b6ee76da 100644
--- a/phpBB/docs/nginx.sample.conf
+++ b/phpBB/docs/nginx.sample.conf
@@ -10,14 +10,23 @@ http {
gzip_vary on;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_min_length 700;
+
+ # Compression levels over 6 do not give an appreciable improvement
+ # in compression ratio, but take more resources.
gzip_comp_level 6;
- gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.";
+
+ # IE 6 and lower do not support gzip with Vary correctly.
+ gzip_disable "msie6";
+ # Before nginx 0.7.63:
+ #gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.";
# Catch-all server for requests to invalid hosts.
# Also catches vulnerability scanners probing IP addresses.
- # Should be first.
server {
- listen 80;
+ # default specifies that this block is to be used when
+ # no other block matches.
+ listen 80 default;
+
server_name bogus;
return 444;
root /var/empty;
@@ -26,14 +35,20 @@ http {
# If you have domains with and without www prefix,
# redirect one to the other.
server {
- listen 80;
+ # Default port is 80.
+ #listen 80;
+
server_name myforums.com;
- rewrite ^(.*)$ http://www.myforums.com$1 permanent;
+
+ # A trick from http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Taxing_Rewrites:
+ rewrite ^ http://www.myforums.com$request_uri permanent;
+ # Equivalent to:
+ #rewrite ^(.*)$ http://www.myforums.com$1 permanent;
}
# The actual board domain.
server {
- listen 80;
+ #listen 80;
server_name www.myforums.com;
root /path/to/phpbb;
@@ -45,8 +60,10 @@ http {
# Deny access to internal phpbb files.
location ~ /(config\.php|common\.php|includes|cache|files|store|images/avatars/upload) {
- internal;
deny all;
+ # deny was ignored before 0.8.40 for connections over IPv6.
+ # Use internal directive to prohibit access on older versions.
+ internal;
}
# Pass the php scripts to fastcgi server specified in upstream declaration.
@@ -60,8 +77,8 @@ http {
# Deny access to version control system directories.
location ~ /\.svn|/\.git {
- internal;
deny all;
+ internal;
}
}