How to password protect an NGINX website
Here are the steps to password protect an NGINX website: 1. Logon to the server You need SSH to solve this problem. 2. Create a
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How to test your NGINX configuration
Description Ensuring you have a proper NGINX configuration is important in determining web servers errors. Both Apache and NGINX are designed to bypass minor errors
How to enable gzip compression on an NGINX server
Background Enabling compression on your web site will serve your website a lot faster. To check if you have compression enabled, use the tool in
Default NGINX File for a Drupal 6/7/8 Site on a Virtualmin Server
Background Although NGINX doesn’t have the concept of .htaccess, getting Drupal 8 working on a Virtualmin NGINX certainly is possible. You have to take the
How to keep track of file downloads on a web server using PHP
Background Keeping track of file downloads is quite tricky. On the one hand, you have tools such as Google Analytics that gives you everything and
How to do a 301 redirect with NGINX and Virtualmin
How to redirect pages to another location using NGINX There are a few different ways to redirect pages from one location to another with NGINX.
How to install and use NGINX in a Virtualmin hosted environment
Background Setting up and using NGINX with Virtualmin is well supported and dead easy. Instructions are already provided here but in this article we will
502 Bad Gateway / upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream on hosted NGINX website
On an NGINX hosted website when accessing /wp-admin on your WordPress hosted website, you might encounter the following error: 502 Bad Gateway 500 errors often
How do deal with an Apache / NGINX server that’s under attack
There are no hard and fast rules on how to deal with a server that’s under attack, but this article should give you some tips
How to password protect NGINX directories
TL;DR mc -e /etc/nginx/nginx.conf location / { auth_basic “Restricted”; auth_basic_user_file /home/domain//public_html/.htpasswd; } htpasswd -c /home/domain/public_html/.htpasswd username Now restart NGINX: # service nginx restart The /