nginxconf

A set of utilities for generating nginx configurations.

To install, simply run:

$ go get github.com/parkr/nginxconf/...

nginx-conf-gen

This command generates nginx server blocks. It can be used to generate one of three different types of sites:

1. Static site (serve files from a directory)
2. Proxy site (act as a reverse proxy to another server running on the same host)
3. Redirect site (redirect any incoming traffic to another domain)

By default, it generates strong a strong SSL configuration based on Let's Encrypt conventions. It does not generate certificates for you, however.

These all print to stdout. You can redirect the contents to a file in your nginx installation's sites-available directory.

1. Static site

To generate a static site, you'll need a directory with your static site to serve from. Then, simply run:

$ nginx-conf-gen -domain="example.org" \
    -static -webroot=/var/www/html

This will serve the contents of /var/www/html at https://example.org.

2. Proxy site

To generate a proxy site, you'll need to know what port to forward the traffic to.

$ nginx-conf-gen -domain="example.org" \
    -proxy -port=8080

This will serve all traffic from your server running at localhost:8080 at https://example.org.

3. Redirect site

To generate a proxy site, you'll need a schema and host to redirect traffic to, e.g. https://example.co.

$ nginx-conf-gen -domain="example.org" \
    -redirect="https://example.co"

This will redirect all traffic to example.org to https://example.co.

nginx-mimes-gen

This command pulls down the MIME types from mime-db and generates an nginx types block. It is quite an extensive list but is useful for serving static sites properly.

To run this command, you will need to know where your nginx configuration lives. On my servers, it usually lives in /opt/nginx/conf. There's a file called mime.types which I just overwrite:

$ nginx-mimes-gen > /opt/nginx/conf/mime.types

In the main http block in your nginx.conf file, ensure the line include mime.types; exists. If it's not there, add it and reload nginx. Voilà!

LICENSE

Code released under The MIT License. See LICENSE.md for details.