Beginner’s Guide

Beginner’s Guide

• Starting, Stopping, and Reloading Configuration
• Configuration File’s Structure
• Serving Static Content
• Setting Up a Simple Proxy Server
• Setting Up FastCGI Proxying

This guide gives a basic introduction to nginx and describes some simple tasks that can be done with it. It is supposed that nginx is already installed on the reader’s machine. If it is not, see the Installing nginx page. This guide describes how to start and stop nginx, and reload its configuration, explains the structure of the configuration file and describes how to set up nginx to serve out static content, how to configure nginx as a proxy server, and how to connect it with a FastCGI application.

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