Installing Nginx on Debian Wheezy

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Add the Official Nginx repository

Download the signed key and add it:

wget http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key
apt-key add nginx_signing.key

Then add the repos to source.list:

deb http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ codename nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ codename nginx

Remember to swap out codename for the current Debian version, as of now, wheezy.

Install

Now that we have repositories for installing Nginx we can go ahead and do so:

apt-get update
apt-get install nginx

Running a Django app from a suburl

If we want to run a Django application from a suburl (kradalby.no/someapp) we need to make the app aware of that path when we send the url to it. If we use a proxy to send request, add this line:

proxy_set_header SCRIPT_NAME /myapp;

WebSocket proxy

To proxy websockets through nginx we need to pass upgrade through the Connection proxy header like this:

location /wsapp/ {
    proxy_pass http://wsbackend;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}

Node app proxy

To proxy most node apps I have been using, you will need to have a subdomain for the app. The settings below where used to proxy strider cd.

location / {
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header HOST $http_host;
    proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;

    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8002;
    proxy_redirect off;
}

Google verification

To verify that you own a domain to google, you can simply add a return statement for the url the where the verification file would be:

location = /googled1085b59adc211cd.html {
        rewrite ^/(.*)  $1;
        return 200 "google-site-verification: $uri";
}