概述

Nginx 是使用一个 master 进程来管理多个 worker 进程提供服务。master 负责管理 worker 进程,而 worker 进程则提供真正的客户服务,worker 进程的数量一般跟服务器上 CPU 的核心数相同,worker 之间通过一些进程间通信机制实现负载均衡等功能。Nginx 进程之间的关系可由下图表示:

Nginx 服务启动时会读入配置文件,后续的行为则按照配置文件中的指令进行。Nginx 的配置文件是纯文本文件,默认安装 Nginx 后,其配置文件均在 /usr/local/nginx/conf/ 目录下。其中,nginx.conf  为主配置文件。配置文件中以 # 开始的行,或者是前面有若干空格或者 TAB 键,然后再跟 # 的行,都被认为是注释。这里只是了解主配置文件的结构。

Nginx 配置文件是以 block(块)形式组织,每个 block 都是以一个块名字和一对大括号 “{}” 表示组成,block 分为几个层级,整个配置文件为 main 层级,即最大的层级;在 main 层级下可以有 event、http 、mail 等层级,而 http 中又会有 server block,server block中可以包含 location block。即块之间是可以嵌套的,内层块继承外层块。最基本的配置项语法格式是“配置项名  配置项值1  配置项值2  配置项值3  ... ”;

每个层级可以有自己的指令(Directive),例如 workerprocesses 是一个main层级指令,它指定 Nginx 服务的 Worker 进程数量。有的指令只能在一个层级中配置,如workerprocesses 只能存在于 main 中,而有的指令可以存在于多个层级,在这种情况下,子 block 会继承 父 block 的配置,同时如果子block配置了与父block不同的指令,则会覆盖掉父 block 的配置。指令的格式是“指令名 参数1 参数2 … 参数N;”,注意参数间可用任意数量空格分隔,最后要加分号。

下图是 Nginx 配置文件通常结构图示。

Nginx 服务的基本配置项

Nginx 服务运行时,需要加载几个核心模块和一个事件模块,这些模块运行时所支持的配置项称为基本配置;基本配置项大概可分为以下四类:

  • 用于调试、定位的配置项;
  • 正常运行的必备配置项;
  • 优化性能的配置项;
  • 事件类配置项;

各个配置项的具体实现如下:

/ Nginx 服务基本配置项 /

/ 用于调试、定位的配置项 /

以守护进程 Nginx 运行方式

语法:daemon off | on;

默认:daemon on;

master / worker 工作方式

语法:master_process on | off;

默认:master_process on;

error 日志设置

路径 错误级别

语法:error_log /path/file level;

默认:error_log logs/error.log error;

其中/path/file是一个具体文件;level是日志的输出级别,其取值如下:

debug info notice warn error crit alert emerg

从左至右级别增大;若设定一个级别后,则在输出的日志文件中只输出级别大于或等于已设定的级别;

处理特殊调试点

语法:debug_points [stop | abort]

这个设置是来跟踪调试 Nginx 的;

仅对指定的客户端输出 debug 级别的日志

语法:debug_connection [IP | DIR]

限制 coredump 核心转储文件的大小

语法:workerrlimitcore size;

指定 coredump 文件的生成目录

语法:working_directory path;

/ 正常运行的配置项 /

定义环境变量

语法:env VAR | VAR=VALUE;

VAR 是变量名,VALUE 是目录;

嵌入其他配置文件

语法:include /path/file;

include 配置项可以将其他配置文件嵌入到 Nginx 的 nginx.conf 文件中;

pid 的文件路径

语法:pid path/file;

默认:pid logs/nginx.pid;

保存 master 进程 ID 的 pid 文件存放路径;

Nginx worker 运行的用户及用户组

语法:user username [groupname];

默认:user nobody nobody;

指定 Nginx worker进程可打开最大句柄个数

语法:workerrlimitnofile limit;

限制信号队列

语法:workerrlimitsigpending limit;

设置每个用户发给 Nginx 的信号队列大小,超出则丢弃;

/ 优化性能配置项 /

Nginx worker 进程的个数

语法:worker_process number;

默认:worker_process 1;

绑定 Nginx worker 进程到指定的 CPU 内核

语法:workercpuaffinity cpumask [cpumask...]

SSL 硬件加速

语法:ssl_engine device;

系统调用 gettimeofday 的执行频率

语法:timer_resolution t;

Nginx worker 进程优先级设置

语法:worker_priority nice;

默认:worker_priority 0;

/ 事件类配置项 /

一般有以下几种配置:

1、是否打开accept锁

语法格式:accept_mutex [on | off];

2、lock文件的路径

语法格式:lock_file path/file;

3、使用accept锁后到真正建立连接之间的延迟时间

语法格式:acceptmutexdelay Nms;

4、批量建立新连接

语法格式:multi_accept [on | off];

5、选择事件模型

语法格式:use [kqueue | rtisg | epoll | /dev/poll | select | poll | eventport];

6、每个worker进行的最大连接数

语法格式:worker_connections number;

HTTP 核心模块的配置

具体可以参看《Nginx 中 HTTP 核心模块配置

/ HTTP 核心模块配置的功能 /

/ 虚拟主机与请求分发 /

监听端口

语法:listen address:port[default | default_server | [backlong=num | rcvbuf=size | sndbuf=size |

accept_filter | deferred | bind | ipv6only=[on | off] | ssl]];

默认:listen:80;

说明:

default或default_server:将所在的server块作为web服务的默认server块;当请求无法匹配配置文件中的所有主机名时,就会选择默认的虚拟主机;

backlog=num:表示 TCP 中backlog队列存放TCP新连接请求的大小,默认是-1,表示不予设置;

rcvbuf=size:设置监听句柄SO_RCVBUF的参数;

sndbuf=size:设置监听句柄SO_SNDBUF的参数;

accept_filter:设置accept过滤器,只对FreeBSD操作系统有用;

deferred:设置该参数后,若用户发起TCP连接请求,并且完成TCP三次握手,但是若用户没有发送数据,则不会唤醒worker进程,直到发送数据;

bind:绑定当前端口 / 地址对,只有同时对一个端口监听多个地址时才会生效;

ssl:在当前端口建立的连接必须基于ssl协议;

配置块范围:server

主机名称

语法:server_name name[...];

默认:server_name "";

配置块范围:server

server name 是使用散列表存储的

每个散列桶占用内存大小

语法:servernameshashbucketsize size;

默认:servernameshashbuckersize 32|64|128;

散列表最大bucket数量

语法:servernameshashmaxsize size;

默认:servernameshashmaxsize 512;

默认:servernamein_redirect on;

配置块范围:server、http、location

处理重定向主机名

语法:servernamein_redirect on | off;

默认:servernamein_redirect on;

配置块范围:server、http、location

location语法:location[= | ~ | ~* | ^~ | @] /uri/ {}

配置块范围:server

location尝试根据用户请求中的URI来匹配 /uri表达式,若匹配成功,则执行{}里面的配置来处理用户请求

以下是location的一般配置项

1、以root方式设置资源路径

语法格式:root path;

2、以alias方式设置资源路径

语法格式:alias path;

3、访问首页

语法格式:index file...;

4、根据HTTP返回码重定向页面

语法格式:errorpage code [code...] [= | =answer-code] uri | @namedlocation;

5、是否允许递归使用error_page

语法格式:recursiveerrorpages [on | off];

6、try_files

语法格式:try_files path1 [path2] uri;

/ 文件路径的定义 /

root方式设置资源路径

语法:root path;

默认:root html;

配置块范围:server、http、location、if

以alias方式设置资源路径

语法:alias path;

配置块范围:location

访问主页

语法:index file...;

默认:index index.html;

配置块范围:http、server、location

根据HTTP返回码重定向页面

语法:errorpage code [code...] [= | =answer-code] uri | @namedlocation;

配置块范围:server、http、location、if

是否允许递归使用error_page

语法:recursiveerrorpages [on | off];

配置块范围:http、server、location

try_files

语法:try_files path1 [path2] uri;

配置块范围:server、location

/ 内存及磁盘资源分配 /

HTTP 包体只存储在磁盘文件中

语法:clientbodyinfileonly on | clean | off;

默认:clientbodyinfileonly off;

配置块范围:http、server、location

HTTP 包体尽量写入到一个内存buffer中

语法:clientbodysingle_buffer on | off;

默认:clientbodysingle_buffer off;

配置块范围:http、server、location

存储 HTTP 头部的内存buffer大小

语法:clientheaderbuffer_size size;

默认:clientheaderbuffer_size 1k;

配置块范围:http、server

存储超大 HTTP 头部的内存buffer大小

语法:largeclientheaderbuffersize number size;

默认:largeclientheaderbuffersize 4 8k;

配置块范围:http、server

存储 HTTP 包体的内存buffer大小

语法:clientbodybuffer_size size;

默认:clientbodybuffer_size 8k/16k;

配置块范围:http、server、location

HTTP 包体的临时存放目录

语法:clientbodytemp_path dir-path [level1 [level2 [level3]]];

默认:clientbodytemppath clientbody_temp;

配置块范围:http、server、location

存储 TCP 成功建立连接的内存池大小

语法:connectionpoolsize size;

默认:connectionpoolsize 256;

配置块范围:http、server

存储 TCP 请求连接的内存池大小

语法:requestpoolsize size;

默认:requestpoolsize 4k;

配置块范围:http、server

/ 网络连接设置 /

读取 HTTP 头部的超时时间

语法:clientheadertimeout time;

默认:clientheadertimeout 60;

配置块范围:http、server、location

读取 HTTP 包体的超时时间

语法:clientbodytimeout time;

默认:clientbodytimeout 60;

配置块范围:http、server、location

发送响应的超时时间

语法:send_timeout time;

默认:send_timeout 60;

配置块范围:http、server、location

TCP 连接的超时重置

语法:resettimeoutconnection on | off;

默认:resettimeoutconnection off;

配置块范围:http、server、location

控制关闭 TCP 连接的方式

语法:lingering_close off | on | always;

默认:lingering_close on;

配置块范围:http、server、location

always 表示关闭连接之前无条件处理连接上所有用户数据;

off 表示不处理;on 一般会处理;

lingering_time

语法:lingering_time time;

默认:lingering_time 30s;

配置块范围:http、server、location

lingering_timeout

语法:lingering_timeout time;

默认:lingering_time 5s;

配置块范围:http、server、location

对某些浏览器禁止keepalive功能

语法:keepalive_disable [mise6 | safari | none]...

默认:keepalive_disable mise6 safari;

配置块范围:http、server、location

keepalive超时时间

语法:keepalive_timeout time;

默认:keepalive_timeout 75;

配置块范围:http、server、location

keepalive长连接上允许最大请求数

语法:keepalive_requests n;

默认:keepalive_requests 100;

配置块范围:http、server、location

tcp_nodelay

语法:tcp_nodelay on | off;

默认:tcp_nodelay on;

配置块范围:http、server、location

tcp_nopush

语法:tcp_nopush on | off;

默认:tcp_nopush off;

配置块范围:http、server、location

/ MIME 类型设置 /

MIME type 与文件扩展的映射

语法:type{...}

配置块范围:http、server、location

多个扩展名可映射到同一个 MIME type

默认 MIME type

语法:default_type MIME-type;

默认:default_type text/plain;

配置块范围:http、server、location

typehashbucket_size

语法:typehashbucket_size size;

默认:typehashbucket_size 32 | 64 | 128;

配置块范围:http、server、location

typehashmax_size

语法:typehashmax_size size;

默认:typehashmax_size 1024;

配置块范围:http、server、location

/ 限制客户端请求 /

按 HTTP 方法名限制用户请求

语法:limit_except method...{...}

配置块:location

method 的取值如下:

GET、HEAD、POST、PUT、DELETE、MKCOL、COPY、MOVE、OPTIONS、

PROPFIND、PROPPATCH、LOCK、UNLOCK、PATCH

HTTP 请求包体的最大值

语法:clientmaxbody_size size;

默认:clientmaxbody_size 1m;

配置块范围:http、server、location

对请求限制速度

语法:limit_rate speed;

默认:limit_rate 0;

配置块范围:http、server、location、if

0 表示不限速

limitrateafter规定时间后限速

语法:limitrateafter time;

默认:limitrateafter 1m;

配置块范围:http、server、location、if

/ 文件操作的优化 /

sendfile系统调用

语法:sendfile on | off;

默认:sendfile off;

配置块:http、server、location

AIO 系统调用

语法:aio on | off;

默认:aio off;

配置块:http、server、location

directio

语法:directio size | off;

默认:directio off;

配置块:http、server、location

directio_alignment

语法:directio_alignment size;

默认:directio_alignment 512;

配置块:http、server、location

打开文件缓存

语法:openfilecache max=N [inactive=time] | off;

默认:openfilecache off;

配置块:http、server、location

是否缓存打开文件的错误信息

语法:openfilecache_errors on | off;

默认:openfilecache_errors off;

配置块:http、server、location

不被淘汰的最小访问次数

语法:openfilecacheminuser number;

默认:openfilecacheminuser 1;

配置块:http、server、location

检验缓存中元素有效性的频率

语法:openfilecache_valid time;

默认:openfilecache_valid 60s;

配置块:http、server、location

/ 客户请求的特殊处理 /

忽略不合法的 HTTP 头部

语法:ignoreinvalidheaders on | off;

默认:ignoreinvalidheaders on;

配置块:http、server

HTTP 头部是否允许下划线

语法:underscoresinheaders on | off;

默认:underscoresinheaders off;

配置块:http、server

IfModifiedSince 头部的处理策略

语法:ifmodifiedsince [off | exact | before]

默认:ifmodifiedsince exact;

配置块:http、server、location

文件未找到时是否记录到error日志

语法:lognotfound on | off;

默认:lognotfound on;

配置块:http、server、location

是否合并相邻的“/

语法:merge_slashes on | off;

默认:merge_slashes on;

配置块:http、server、location

DNS解析地址

语法:resolver address...;

配置块:http、server、location

DNS解析的超时时间

语法:resolver_timeout time;

默认:resolver_timeout 30s;

配置块:http、server、location

返回错误页面是否在server中注明Nginx版本

语法:server_tokens on | off;

默认:server_tokens on;

配置块:http、server、location

以下是在 Ubuntu 12.04 系统成功安装 Nginx 之后的主配置文件:

#Nginx服务器正常启动时会读取该配置文件,以下的值都是默认的,若需要可自行修改;

以下是配置选项

Nginx worker进程运行的用户以及用户组

语法格式:user username[groupname]

user nobody;

Nginx worker 进程个数

worker_processes 1;

error 日志设置

语法格式:error /path/file level

其中/path/file是一个具体文件;level是日志的输出级别,其取值如下:

debug info notice warn error crit alert emerg,从左至右级别增大;

若设定一个级别后,则在输出的日志文件中只输出级别大于或等于已设定的级别;

error_log logs/error.log;

error_log logs/error.log notice;

error_log logs/error.log info;

保存master进程ID的pid文件存放路径

语法格式:pid path/file

pid logs/nginx.pid;

事件类配置项

一般有以下几种配置:

1、是否打开accept锁

语法格式:accept_mutex [on | off];

2、lock文件的路径

语法格式:lock_file path/file;

3、使用accept锁后到真正建立连接之间的延迟时间

语法格式:acceptmutexdelay Nms;

4、批量建立新连接

语法格式:multi_accept [on | off];

5、选择事件模型

语法格式:use [kqueue | rtisg | epoll | /dev/poll | select | poll | eventport];

6、每个worker进行的最大连接数

语法格式:worker_connections number;

events {worker_connections 1024;}

以下是http模块

http {include mime.types;default_type application/octet-stream;

    #log_format  main  <span class="token string">'$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '</span>
    #                  <span class="token string">'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '</span>
    #                  <span class="token string">'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"'</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #access_log  logs<span class="token operator">/</span>access<span class="token punctuation">.</span>log  main<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    sendfile        on<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #tcp_nopush     on<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #keepalive_timeout  <span class="token number">0</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    keepalive_timeout  <span class="token number">65</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #gzip  on<span class="token punctuation">;</span>

server块

每个server块就是一个虚拟主机,按照server_name来区分

server {

监听端口

listen 80;

主机名称

server_name localhost;

        #charset koi8<span class="token operator">-</span>r<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
        #access_log  logs<span class="token operator">/</span>host<span class="token punctuation">.</span>access<span class="token punctuation">.</span>log  main<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
#location语法:location<span class="token punctuation">[</span><span class="token operator">=</span> <span class="token operator">|</span> <span class="token operator">~</span> <span class="token operator">|</span> <span class="token operator">~</span><span class="token operator">*</span> <span class="token operator">|</span> <span class="token operator">^</span><span class="token operator">~</span> <span class="token operator">|</span> @<span class="token punctuation">]</span> <span class="token operator">/</span>uri<span class="token operator">/</span> <span class="token punctuation">{</span><span class="token punctuation">}</span>
        #location尝试根据用户请求中的URI来匹配 <span class="token operator">/</span>uri表达式,若匹配成功,则执行<span class="token punctuation">{</span><span class="token punctuation">}</span>里面的配置来处理用户请求
#以下是location的一般配置项
#<span class="token number">1</span>、以root方式设置资源路径
#   语法格式:root path<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
#<span class="token number">2</span>、以alias方式设置资源路径
#   语法格式:alias path<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
#<span class="token number">3</span>、访问首页
#   语法格式:index file<span class="token punctuation">.</span><span class="token punctuation">.</span><span class="token punctuation">.</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span>
#<span class="token number">4</span>、根据HTTP返回码重定向页面
#   语法格式:error_page code <span class="token punctuation">[</span>code<span class="token punctuation">.</span><span class="token punctuation">.</span><span class="token punctuation">.</span><span class="token punctuation">]</span> <span class="token punctuation">[</span><span class="token operator">=</span> <span class="token operator">|</span> <span class="token operator">=</span>answer<span class="token operator">-</span>code<span class="token punctuation">]</span> uri <span class="token operator">|</span> @named_location<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
#<span class="token number">5</span>、是否允许递归使用error_page
#   语法格式:recursive_error_pages <span class="token punctuation">[</span>on <span class="token operator">|</span> off<span class="token punctuation">]</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span>
#<span class="token number">6</span>、try_files
#   语法格式:try_files path1 <span class="token punctuation">[</span>path2<span class="token punctuation">]</span> uri<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
        location <span class="token operator">/</span> <span class="token punctuation">{</span>
            root   html<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
            index  index<span class="token punctuation">.</span>html index<span class="token punctuation">.</span>htm<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
        <span class="token punctuation">}</span>
        #error_page  <span class="token number">404</span>              <span class="token operator">/</span><span class="token number">404.</span>html<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
        # redirect server error pages to the static page <span class="token operator">/</span><span class="token number">50</span>x<span class="token punctuation">.</span>html
        #
        error_page   <span class="token number">500</span> <span class="token number">502</span> <span class="token number">503</span> <span class="token number">504</span>  <span class="token operator">/</span><span class="token number">50</span>x<span class="token punctuation">.</span>html<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
        location <span class="token operator">=</span> <span class="token operator">/</span><span class="token number">50</span>x<span class="token punctuation">.</span>html <span class="token punctuation">{</span>
            root   html<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
        <span class="token punctuation">}</span>
        # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on <span class="token number">127.0</span><span class="token number">.0</span><span class="token number">.1</span><span class="token punctuation">:</span><span class="token number">80</span>
        #
        #location <span class="token operator">~</span> \<span class="token punctuation">.</span>php$ <span class="token punctuation">{</span>
        #    proxy_pass   http<span class="token punctuation">:</span><span class="token operator">/</span><span class="token operator">/</span><span class="token number">127.0</span><span class="token number">.0</span><span class="token number">.1</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span>
        #<span class="token punctuation">}</span>
        # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on <span class="token number">127.0</span><span class="token number">.0</span><span class="token number">.1</span><span class="token punctuation">:</span><span class="token number">9000</span>
        #
        #location <span class="token operator">~</span> \<span class="token punctuation">.</span>php$ <span class="token punctuation">{</span>
        #    root           html<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
        #    fastcgi_pass   <span class="token number">127.0</span><span class="token number">.0</span><span class="token number">.1</span><span class="token punctuation">:</span><span class="token number">9000</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span>
        #    fastcgi_index  index<span class="token punctuation">.</span>php<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
        #    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  <span class="token operator">/</span>scripts$fastcgi_script_name<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
        #    include        fastcgi_params<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
        #<span class="token punctuation">}</span>
        # deny access to <span class="token punctuation">.</span>htaccess files<span class="token punctuation">,</span> <span class="token keyword">if</span> Apache's document root
        # concurs with nginx's one
        #
        #location <span class="token operator">~</span> <span class="token operator">/</span>\<span class="token punctuation">.</span>ht <span class="token punctuation">{</span>
        #    deny  all<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
        #<span class="token punctuation">}</span>
    <span class="token punctuation">}</span>
    # another virtual host using mix of IP<span class="token operator">-</span><span class="token punctuation">,</span> name<span class="token operator">-</span><span class="token punctuation">,</span> and port<span class="token operator">-</span>based configuration
    #
    #server <span class="token punctuation">{</span>
    #    listen       <span class="token number">8000</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #    listen       somename<span class="token punctuation">:</span><span class="token number">8080</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #    server_name  somename  alias  another<span class="token punctuation">.</span>alias<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #    location <span class="token operator">/</span> <span class="token punctuation">{</span>
    #        root   html<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #        index  index<span class="token punctuation">.</span>html index<span class="token punctuation">.</span>htm<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #    <span class="token punctuation">}</span>
    #<span class="token punctuation">}</span>
    # HTTPS server
    #
    #server <span class="token punctuation">{</span>
    #    listen       <span class="token number">443</span> ssl<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #    server_name  localhost<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #    ssl_certificate      cert<span class="token punctuation">.</span>pem<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #    ssl_certificate_key  cert<span class="token punctuation">.</span>key<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #    ssl_session_cache    shared<span class="token punctuation">:</span>SSL<span class="token punctuation">:</span><span class="token number">1</span>m<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #    ssl_session_timeout  <span class="token number">5</span>m<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #    ssl_ciphers  HIGH<span class="token punctuation">:</span><span class="token operator">!</span>aNULL<span class="token punctuation">:</span><span class="token operator">!</span>MD5<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers  on<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #    location <span class="token operator">/</span> <span class="token punctuation">{</span>
    #        root   html<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #        index  index<span class="token punctuation">.</span>html index<span class="token punctuation">.</span>htm<span class="token punctuation">;</span>
    #    <span class="token punctuation">}</span>
    #<span class="token punctuation">}</span>

}

参考资料:

《深入理解Nginx》

Nginx模块开发入门

Nginx开发从入门到精通

https://www.kancloud.cn/digest/understandingnginx/202587

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