Setting Nginx configuration for CentOS VPS 6, 7

Nginx configuration file to VPS Linux CentOS live copy paste, lived. This configuration template can be applied after installing Nginx on VPS Cloud Server.

Configuring Nginx

it’s at:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

user              nginx;
worker_processes  4;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
#error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log  notice;
#error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log  info;

pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


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

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  30;
    # Untuk perfoma nginx terbaik
    gzip on;
    gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
    gzip_http_version 1.1;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_proxied any;
    gzip_comp_level 6;
    gzip_buffers 16 8k;
    gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript application/javascript text/x-js;
    #gzip  on;

    # Load config files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory
    # The default server is in conf.d/default.conf

    # comment default nginx konfigurasi dan pakai konfig site-enable
    # include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

    # enabled sites - enable server or virtual host block
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

}

Further reading: how Server Settings Block Nginx 6 CentOS VPS.

Add domains in Nginx

Example, the following Web.config to idnetter.com, create a file URsshagan.net in conf folder/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/.

vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/sshagan.net.conf

Its Contents

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name sshagan.net;

        # If use SSL to eliminate the following comments
        # listen 443 ssl;
        # ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/sshagan.net.crt;
        # ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/sshagan.net.key;

        client_max_body_size 5m;
        client_body_timeout 60;

        access_log /var/www/html/sshagan.net/access.log;
        error_log /var/www/html/sshagan.net/error.log error;

        root /var/www/html/sshagan.net/;
        index  index.html index.php;

        ### root directory ###
        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
        }

        ### security ###
        error_page 403 =404;
        location ~ /\. { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; }
        location ~ ~$ { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; }
        location ~* wp-admin/includes { deny all; }
        location ~* wp-includes/theme-compat/ { deny all; }
        location ~* wp-includes/js/tinymce/langs/.*\.php { deny all; }
        location /wp-includes/ { internal; }
        location ~* wp-config.php { deny all; }
        location ~* ^/wp-content/uploads/.*.(html|htm|shtml|php)$ {
                types { }
                default_type text/plain;
        }

        ### disable logging ###
        location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
        location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

        ### caches ###
        location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ { access_log off; expires max; }
        location ~* \.(woff|svg)$ { access_log off; log_not_found off; expires 30d; }
        location ~* \.(js)$ { access_log off; log_not_found off; expires 7d; }

        ### php block ###
        location ~ \.php?$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/gateaway.socket;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
                #Prevent version info leakage
                fastcgi_hide_header X-Powered-By;
        }
}