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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)

Application focused logging

In this recipe, we're going to customize the logs to give us a bit more information when it comes to applications and metrics. Additional information, such as the response time, can be immensely useful for measuring the responsiveness of your application. While it can generally be generated within your application stack, it can also induce some overhead or give incomplete results.

How to do it...

To start with, we need to define our new log format:

log_format applogs '$remote_addr $remote_user $time_iso8601' 
                   '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent ' 
                   '$request_time $upstream_response_time'; 
The log_format directive...