[HN Gopher] Show HN: Nginx Common Useful Configuration
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Show HN: Nginx Common Useful Configuration
Author : frizzy
Score : 23 points
Date : 2022-03-31 19:21 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| amanzi wrote:
| It suddenly feels like Nginx is a legacy system, in the same way
| Apache became a legacy system when Nginx was launched. If I need
| a web server my first instinct is to reach for Caddy, or if I
| just need a reverse-proxy then it's either Caddy or Traefik.
| frizzy wrote:
| Hi guys, I agree with you that today there are a lot of better
| web servers like traefik, caddy and so one, but nginx is still
| popular and so one people use it wrong... So I decided to open
| source my own variant of configs for it)
| technion wrote:
| I don't think you should feel a need to defend this. It's one
| of the more popular web servers on the Internet, and this looks
| like a great resource for it.
| metadat wrote:
| After switching to Traefik, I haven't looked back. I prefer the
| fully open source options of HAProxy or Traefik to the feature-
| paywalled "free tier" nginx of today. Capability wise, between
| the two they have everything ngx has and more*. Also, have you
| ever tried compiling ngx yourself (they don't include Lua modules
| support in their k8s Docker images)? It's not easy, interesting,
| or fun. More of a nightmare.
|
| Finally, I sure don't miss feeling the urge to bookmark config
| helper articles like this one- nginx is challenging to configure
| well! Endless hidden options, and for whatever reason I found
| their documentation less helpful than HAProxy's.
|
| If you are forced to continue using it, you have my sympathy.
|
| * I've created some rather exotic LB setups as times to meet
| requirements.
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