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How to Create Custom Error Pages in Nginx
A default Nginx 404 page tells a visitor almost nothing useful — just a bare “404 Not Found”…
How to Enable Gzip Compression in Nginx
Gzip compression is one of those settings that takes about five minutes to configure and can cut your…
How to Set Up Nginx with PHP-FPM
Nginx doesn’t process PHP on its own — it has no built-in interpreter for it, unlike Apache with…
How to Configure Nginx for WordPress
WordPress was originally built with Apache and .htaccess files in mind, which means every WordPress-on-Nginx setup needs a…
How to Set Up Nginx with Let’s Encrypt SSL
There’s genuinely no excuse anymore for running a production site without HTTPS. Let’s Encrypt made free, automatically renewing…
How to Whitelist IP Addresses in Nginx
IP whitelisting is one of the simplest and most effective access controls available in Nginx — restricting a…
How to Block IP Addresses in Nginx
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve opened an access log and found the same IP address…
How to Configure Basic Authentication in Nginx
There’s a particular kind of relief I feel every time I put a staging site behind a password…
How to Enable HTTP/2 in Nginx
The first time I benchmarked a site before and after switching on HTTP/2, I was surprised by how…
How to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Nginx
Every production site I deploy ends up with the same rule sitting near the top of its configuration:…