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Intelligent Nginx Configuration Generator

Generate production-ready Nginx configurations with AI-powered performance profiles and framework presets

Why? nginxconf-wizard exists to make self-hosting safer and cheaper by reducing the fear around web-server configuration. It starts with Nginx, but the long-term goal is a guided configuration and analysis layer for web servers in general.


Current Status

nginxconf-wizard currently provides a working Nginx-focused CLI for generating and improving web-server configurations.

Implemented so far:

  • Interactive CLI wizard
  • Core Nginx configuration generation
  • SSL/TLS configuration support
  • Reverse proxy support
  • Framework presets
  • Security headers and rate limiting
  • Performance profiles
  • Nginx configuration testing with enhanced error reporting

Roadmap

nginxconf-wizard starts with Nginx, but the long-term goal is to become a guided configuration, validation, and analysis layer for web servers in general.

Near Term

  • Expand generated config test fixtures
  • Add CI checks for generated configs
  • Improve validation and error messages
  • Add config diff previews before applying updates
  • Add backup and rollback workflows

Analysis Layer

  • Improve log analysis recommendations
  • Add benchmark-driven tuning for tools like wrk, ApacheBench, and k6
  • Detect slow routes, upstream failures, and risky traffic patterns
  • Generate safer performance recommendations based on real server behavior

Agentic Safety Layer

  • Build agentic configuration analysis for hidden interactions between settings
  • Combine AI reasoning with deterministic safety checks
  • Validate suggestions before recommending changes
  • Detect risky combinations involving caching, proxying, headers, TLS, buffers, and timeouts

Long Term

  • Add support beyond Nginx through a server adapter system
  • Explore support for Caddy, Apache, Traefik, HAProxy, and OpenResty
  • Add a plugin system for community presets, validation rules, and server backends

Features

Smart Configuration

  • AI-Powered Profiles: Automatically detect and apply optimal performance settings
  • Framework Presets: Ready-to-use configs for Next.js, React, WordPress, Laravel, etc.
  • Configuration Validation: Comprehensive syntax checking and best practice recommendations
  • Nginx Testing: Built-in nginx -t wrapper with enhanced error reporting

Security & Performance

  • Security Hardening: SSL/TLS, security headers, and rate limiting by default
  • Performance Optimization: Tuned profiles for high-traffic, CDN, API gateway environments
  • Log Analysis: Access and error log parsing with actionable insights
  • Benchmark Analysis: Performance analysis for wrk, ApacheBench, k6, and other tools

Installation

Global Installation (Recommended)

npm install -g nginxconf-wizard

Local Development

git clone https://github.com/trfhgx/nginxconf-wizard.git
cd nginxconf-wizard
npm install
npm link

Verify Installation

nginxconf-wizard --version

Quick Start

Interactive Wizard

nginxconf-wizard

Follow the prompts to generate your first configuration!

Framework Presets

# Next.js Application
nginxconf-wizard generate --preset nextjs --profile api-gateway

# React SPA with API
nginxconf-wizard generate --preset react-spa

# WordPress Site
nginxconf-wizard generate --preset wordpress --profile high-traffic

Validate Configuration

nginxconf-wizard validate nginx.conf

Usage

Generate Configuration

nginxconf-wizard generate [options]
Option Description Example
--preset <name> Framework preset --preset nextjs
--profile <name> Performance profile --profile high-traffic
--output <file> Output file --output my-nginx.conf

Available Presets

  • nextjs - Next.js applications
  • react-spa - React Single Page Apps
  • wordpress - WordPress sites
  • laravel - Laravel applications
  • static-html - Static websites
  • fastapi - FastAPI backends

Performance Profiles

  • balanced - Default settings
  • high-traffic - 2048+ connections
  • low-resource - Constrained environments
  • cdn-origin - Behind Cloudflare
  • api-gateway - High upstream connections

Advanced Commands

# Update existing configuration
nginxconf-wizard update --auto-apply

# Analyze logs for insights
nginxconf-wizard analyze-logs /var/log/nginx/access.log

# Benchmark analysis
nginxconf-wizard analyze-benchmark results.txt --apply

# Test configuration
nginxconf-wizard test nginx.conf

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide.

Development Workflow

  1. Fork the repository
  2. Create feature branch: git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature
  3. Commit changes: git commit -m 'feat: add amazing feature'
  4. Push: git push origin feature/amazing-feature
  5. Open Pull Request

Code Quality

  • ESLint configuration
  • Jest test coverage
  • Prettier formatting
  • Conventional commits

Requirements

  • Node.js: 18.0.0 or higher
  • Nginx: 1.18.0 or higher (optional, for testing)

Getting Help


License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file.

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Web-server configuration wizard starting with Nginx. Generate, validate, and analyze safer configs for VPS and bare-metal self-hosting with presets, security hardening, logs, benchmarks, and future agentic safety checks.

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