Useful NGINX instructions

response header

• Add response header to the response

add_header <KEY> <VALUE>

request header for proxied server

• Add request header for proxied server
  put this into server/location directive.

proxy_add_header <KEY> <VALUE>

related: $host: in this order of precedence,

• host name from the request line
• host name from the “Host” request header field
• the server name matching a request

plugin virtual servers into main NGINX config

• When installing from NGINX’s official repository, the line will read include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf; just as you can see in the http block placed above. Every website hosted with NGINX should feature a unique configuration file in /etc/nginx/conf.d/, and the name will be formatted as example.com.conf.Those sites that have been disabled — not served by NGINX — should be titled example.com.conf.disabled.
• When installing NGINX from the Ubuntu or Debian repositories, the line will read: include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;. The ../sites-enabled/ folder will include symlinks to the site configuration files located within /etc/nginx/sites-available/. You can disable sites within sites-available if you take out the symlink to sites-enabled.
• According to the installation source, an illustrative configuration file can be found at /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf or etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default.