How to See Nginx Version and Configure Arguments
While working on setting up a new QA environment, I realized that I needed to make sure the version and exact configuration matched our development environment. So how do you check that?
How to Fix “client intended to send too large body” in Nginx
If you’re getting the obnoxious “client intended to send too large body” error like I am, you’re in luck because today we’re going to solve the article. In fact, I’m writing this paragraph before I’ve even solved the error in…
How to Respond to All Nginx Requests with a Static HTML Page
After we switched HTG over to HTTPS, we enabled the HSTS headers that force browsers to always talk to *.howtogeek.com over HTTPS — but we forgot one thing. We were still using Feedburner to serve up feeds.howtogeek.com….
How to Search with “grep” Using Strings in a File
Grep is an amazing tool to search through log files and pull out useful information, but what if you want to search a log file using a giant list of keywords from another file? Luckily it has that feature built in as well….
How to Gracefully Restart nginx (And Why)
After you make configuration changes to your web server or other service, you generally have to restart the process to get it to recognize the updated settings. The problem is that the regular restart first kills the process …
How to Block Access to Nginx Except for a Specific IP Address
While setting up this site, I wanted to work on articles and tweak the design before actually launching to the public, so I needed a simple way to keep everybody else out until it was all ready to go. So I used the nginx acce…
How to Compress and Extract Files Using the tar Command on Linux
The tar command on Linux is often used to create .tar.gz or .tgz archive files, also called “tarballs.” This command has a large number of options, but you just need to remember a few letters to quickly create archives with…
