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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)

Logging to syslog

If you already have your centralized server logs or your logs are analyzed by a standard syslog system, you can also redirect your NGINX logs to do the same. This is useful when using external platforms such as Loggly and Papertrail, which integrate via syslog.

How to do it...

Firstly, we need to consider where we're pushing the logs to, syslog can be both local and network-based, so we'll cover both ways. For nearly all Linux distributions, the default syslog service is rsyslog which will be listening on the Unix socket located at /dev/log. Here's our NGINX configuration for local logging:

server { 
    listen              80; 
    server_name         syslog.nginxcookbook.com; 
    access_log...