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NGINX Cookbook

By : Tim Butler
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NGINX Cookbook

By: Tim Butler

Overview of this book

NGINX Cookbook covers the basics of configuring NGINX as a web server for use with common web frameworks such as WordPress and Ruby on Rails, through to utilization as a reverse proxy. Designed as a go-to reference guide, this book will give you practical answers based on real-world deployments to get you up and running quickly. Recipes have also been provided for multiple SSL configurations, different logging scenarios, practical rewrites, and multiple load balancing scenarios. Advanced topics include covering bandwidth management, Docker container usage, performance tuning, OpenResty, and the NGINX Plus commercial features. By the time you've read this book, you will be able to adapt and use a wide variety of NGINX implementations to solve any problems you have.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Customizing web access logs

There are a number of ways you can customize the log files, including the format, the information provided, and where to save them to. This customization can be especially handy if you're using NGINX as a proxy in front of application servers, where traditional web style logs may not be as useful.

How to do it...

There are a few different ways we can customize the access logs in order to get more relevant information or reduce the amount of logging where it's not required. The standard configuration of combined is as follows:

log_format combined '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] ' 
                   '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent ' 
      ...