Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, and user input, are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

types {
    text/html                   html htm shtml;
    text/css                    css;
    text/xml                    xml;
    image/gif                   gif;
    image/jpeg                  jpeg jpg;
    application/x-javascript    js;
    application/atom+xml        atom;
    application/rss+xml         rss;
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

types {
    text/html                   html htm shtml;
    text/css                    css;
    text/xml                    xml;
    image/gif                   gif;
    image/jpeg                  jpeg jpg;
    application/x-javascript    js;
    application/atom+xml        atom;
    application/rss+xml         rss;
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

# cp /usr/local/nginx/nginx.conf.default
     /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Clicking the Next button moves you to the next screen."

Elisions of sections of configuration files are shown as […] or with a comment [… this part of the configuration file is up to you ...]