Speed up initial connection (1 reply)
Is there anything I can do to speed up the initial connection? It seems like the first page of my site I hit is consistently slower to respond than all subsequent requests. This is the case even when...
View ArticleNginx Serving Large Static Files >=2GB (no replies)
So I want to find the best optimal settings for serving large static files with Nginx. >=2GB I read that "output_buffers" is the key. Would also like to know if it should be defined per location {}...
View Articlefake googlebots (5 replies)
I got a spoofed googlebot hit. It was easy to detect since there were probably a hundred requests that triggered my hacker detection map scheme. Only two requests received a 200 return and both were...
View ArticleRe: fake googlebots / nginx-http-rdns (1 reply)
lists: > Nginx has a reverse DNS module: > https://github.com/flant/nginx-http-rdns for an older version from 20140411 I have a patch. That version works without problems. ---...
View ArticleRecommended limit_req and limit_conn for location ~ \.php$ {} (4 replies)
So to prevent flooding / spam by bots especially since some bots are just brutal when they crawl by within milliseconds jumping to every single page they can get. I am going to apply limit's to my PHP...
View Articlenginx with openssl? (no replies)
I replaced openssl library with the newest one,1.0.1u, and then compiled and make install the newest Nginx, why Nginx still run with old openssl? Please Help!! [root@10-4-28-10 modules]#...
View Article444 return code and rate limiting (5 replies)
I pulled this off the rate limiting thread since I think the 444 return is a good topic all on its own. "But under a DoS attack I always feel those values would be better being "444" since the server...
View ArticleUneven High Load on the Nginx Server (2 replies)
We are having two Nginx Server acting as Caching Server behind haproxy loadbalancer. We are observing a high load on one of the server though we see equal number of requests coming on the server from...
View ArticleInquiry regarding support for OpenSSL 1.0.2i (2 replies)
Hello, We've recently received a notification regarding a vulnerability in OpenSSL: OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304) This is fixed in OpenSSL v1.0.2i We're running...
View ArticleStatic or dynamic content (no replies)
Hi I've got an issue where nginx (see below for version/compile options) returns a 405 (not allowed) to POST requests to clients when the upstream proxy returns a 503. I know nginx doesn't allow posts...
View Articlenginx can't spawn sub process (1 reply)
Hi dear all, I compiled nginx 1.8.1 from source on Windows XP . when I run it , it can spawn sub process but the sub process crashed immediately . BTW , because I did not install cygwin on my system ....
View Articlelocalhost on Passenger delayed serve (1 reply)
Hi folks. A localhost passenger domain (hq.local) isn’t showing up on my local Safari. It’s pointed properly in the hosts file and Firefox takes about 10 seconds to show it, but Safari just waits for...
View Articlelocation query string? (no replies)
Can I define a location block based on the value of a query string so I can set a longer timeout for certain form submissions even though all of my form submissions POST to the same URL? - Grant...
View Articleproxy_pass generates double slash (1 reply)
Hi, I need to proxy a location and remove the location-URL at the same time. As I found out, this is achieved by adding a slash at the end of the proxy_pass directive. This works almost as intended,...
View ArticleOpen Socket issue !! (1 reply)
Hi, We're facing following errors in logs, are they critical ? 2016/09/29 17:23:54 [alert] 9073#0: *190899046 open socket #21 left in connection 89 2016/09/29 17:23:54 [alert] 9073#0: *190585499 open...
View Articlelocation /robots.txt conflict / issue (1 reply)
So this is one of those issues it is most likely a bad configuration but my robots.txt file is returning a 404 because of another location because I am disallowing people to access any text files but I...
View Articlenginx multiprocess on Windows (2 replies)
Hi dear all, I'm running nginx 1.10.1 on Windows , which is configured with 2 sub processes . I'm using ab to test the work load , found only one process is busy (cpu usage is high) but the other...
View Articlengx_brotli (1 reply)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello! Is there any best practice or some example to see how brotli compression works? I've patch the nginx using ngx_brotli[1], but I didn't see any...
View Articleproxy_set_header Connection ""; (3 replies)
Does anyone know why this is required for upstream keepalive? - Grant _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
View ArticleNginx Proxy KeepAlive and FastCGI KeepAlive (2 replies)
FastCGI : upstream fastcgi_backend { server 127.0.0.1:9000; keepalive 8; } server { ... location /fastcgi/ { fastcgi_pass fastcgi_backend; fastcgi_keep_conn on; ... } } Proxy : upstream http_backend {...
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