We open a Terminal and use the one-liner command sudo nginx -s stop && sudo nginx to restart the Nginx on macOS. Restart the Nginx service. Terminal sudo nginx -s stop && sudo nginx Reload the Nginx configuration file. Terminal sudo nginx -s reload Table of Contents 1. Restart the Nginx on macOS 2. Reload […]
Uploads a file and hits the following Nginx error page. Table of Contents 1. Reason 2. Fix the 413 Request Entity Too Large 2.1 Find the Nginx configuration file 2.2 Adjust the client_max_body_size 2.3 Reload Nginx 3. client_max_body_size default limit References 1. Reason The 413 Request Entity Too Large error in Nginx means the request […]
We can type the command nginx -v (lowercase v) in Linux, macOS, and Windows to show the Nginx version currently installed on our system. 1. Check Nginx version The Nginx with a lowercase v option, the nginx -V show the version and then exits. In the below output, Nginx version 1.21.0 is currently installed. Terminal […]
By default, Homebrew will install all packages in the directory /usr/local/Cellar/, and also creates symbolic links at /usr/local/opt/ and /usr/local/bin/ (for executable files). Terminal /usr/local/Cellar/ /usr/local/opt/ /usr/local/bin/ Terminal % brew -v Homebrew 2.7.2 Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 3c379; last commit 2021-01-11) Homebrew/homebrew-cask (git revision 40d45; last commit 2021-01-11) P.S Tested with Homebrew 2.7.2 and macOS Big […]
This tutorial shows how to install ModSecurity (open source web application Firewall) in Nginx, and also enable the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS). Tested: Nginx Open Source 1.17.7 ModSecurity 3.0 OWASP ModSecurity CRS 3.2.2 Debian The official guide of installing ModSecurity for NGINX is very detail and well documented, and you should refer it. […]
We installed Nginx, MariaDB, PHP, and WordPress on Mac OS. The homepage is displayed fine, but all other pages are returning 404 errors? Tested with Nginx 1.17.9 WordPress 5.4 PHP 7.4 Review the current Nginx + WordPress integration. nginx.conf server { listen 8080; server_name localhost; root /usr/local/var/www/wordpress; location / { index index.html index.htm index.php; } […]
Upgraded a Nginx Server to the latest 1.15.x, but hits the following error message : Terminal $ sudo service nginx status * nginx.service Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad) Active: inactive (dead) $ sudo service nginx restart Failed to restart nginx.service: Unit nginx.service is masked. Solution To solve it, just unmask with this : sudo systemctl unmask […]
Fresh installs a WordPress on Windows for development, and hits the ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS error message? Tested URL : http://localhost/index.php/wp-admin/install.php Tested : PHP 7.1.10 WordPress 4.8.3 Nginx 1.12.1 MySQL 5.7.17 Windows 10 your-nginx\conf\nginx.conf upstream php { server 127.0.0.1:9999; } server { listen 80; server_name localhost; root www/wordpress; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; } location ~ […]
This article shows you how to install and integrate Nginx and PHP on Windows. Tested Nginx 1.12.1 PHP 7.1.10 Windows 10 1. Install Nginx + PHP Basically, just download zip file and extracts it, no installation. To install Nginx Visit http://nginx.org/en/download.html Download nginx/Windows-1.12.2 Extract to C:\nginx-1.12.1 To Install PHP Visit http://windows.php.net/download/ Download PHP7.1 download VC14 […]
Run php-cgi.exe and hits a pop up dialog showing the following error message : Application Error : The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b) Terminal c:\php7.1>php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9123 Tested with PHP 7.1.10 on Windows 10 Solution To run PHP on Windows, you need to install Redistributable for Visual Studio, refer to the official PHP […]
A common Nginx + PHP error message “No input file specified.” nginx.conf http { include mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; server { listen 80; server_name localhost; location / { root www; index index.html index.htm; } location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9999; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } } } Tested with Nginx 1.12.1 + PHP […]
In this article, we will show you how to block referrer spam in one of our Nginx web server. 1. Find the Patterns Check the Nginx access.log file, and identify the “referrer spam” patterns. $ sudo tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log Some patterns : 200 http://???.ru/engine/redirect.php?url=http://mywebsite.com/site/blogspot.com.au 200 http://???.com/tp/out.php?link=alternatevideo&url=http%3A//mywebsite.com/site/readyliftproshop.com 200 http://???.edu/online/redirect.asp?url=http://mywebsite/site/wheretoshophongkong.com We are going to block following patterns […]
This tutorial shows you how to configure Nginx as a reverse proxy to redirect the traffics from port 80 to Apache Tomcat on port 8080. Here is the environment in my Linode server : Debian 7.5 Nginx 1.2.1 Tomcat 7.0.28 P.S Both Nginx and Tomcat are installed via apt-get install. 1. Tomcat Configuration Edit server.xml, […]
In Nginx, you can block certain user agents (normally it is crawler) like this : /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default server { listen 80; server_name mysite.com; root /etc/tomcat7/webapps/mysite; if ($http_user_agent ~* (ahrefs|wget|crawler|majestic) ) { return 403; } location / { <!– xxx –> } } In above example, for “user agent” that contains one of this pattern : ahrefs|wget|crawler|majestic, […]
Recently, many referer spam hit on my server, below is the command I used to find and count the IP Address from a Nginx access log file. $ sudo awk ‘{print $1}’ /var/log/nginx/access.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr Full example. $ sudo awk ‘{print $1}’ /var/log/nginx/access.log | sort | uniq -c | […]
When editing post or page in WordPress, sometime the server’s firewall will block my IP address, and the log showed the following error: Terminal lfd: (mod_security) mod_security triggered by xx.xx.xx.xx : 5 in the last 300 secs The quick fix is to restart the modem or uses a VPN to get a new IP to […]
