Ask HN: Has anyone found a good hands on way to learn nginx.conf?

NegativeLatency 6y ago ↗

I'll usually put the following at the top of my conf when I'm trying to get something to work, and want to test it out interactively (makes it run without forking, and log to stdout instead of a file you'd then have to tail):

daemon off;

master_process off;

error_log /dev/stdout;

seph-reed 6y ago ↗

brilliant. the logging bit has been slow, and this seems very helpful.

> makes it run without forking

what's forking? I didn't find much in a query (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nginx+forking)

NegativeLatency 6y ago ↗

normally when you start nginx it will start another process, detach it from your shell and then exit. This leaves the other process running.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17954432/creating-a-daem...

When you don't let it fork you can easily hit control c to kill the server, make some config changes and then restart.

seph-reed 6y ago ↗

Ah. Thank you. I did not realize this was called forking.

vkaku 6y ago ↗

Mine is usually modular. You just want to keep all services, hosts and common things included.

I start with the bare minimum and start adding as need be.