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Run Nginx in front of backend services with upstreams, proxy headers, WebSockets, backend ports, timeouts, and failure checks.
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Configure Nginx Rate Limiting with limit_req
A login form, search endpoint, or API route can overload a backend long before the rest of the site looks busy. Nginx rate limiting caps request frequency at...
How to Enable HTTP/3 and QUIC in Nginx
HTTP/3 in Nginx is a version and build check before it is a configuration change. To enable HTTP/3 and QUIC in Nginx, the running binary must support the...
How to Configure CORS in Nginx
CORS becomes a server problem as soon as a browser app at one origin needs to read an API, font, image, or JSON response from another origin. To...
How to Fix Nginx 504 Gateway Timeout Errors
An Nginx 504 Gateway Timeout error means Nginx waited too long for the next upstream step to complete. The upstream might be a reverse-proxied application, a PHP-FPM pool,...
Nginx try_files Directive Explained
Nginx try_files decides what happens after a request matches a server or location block. It can serve a real file, check for a directory, send the request to...
Nginx Root vs Alias: Path Mapping and Troubleshooting
Nginx root and alias both point requests at files on disk, but they build the final filesystem path in different ways. Use root when the URI path matches...
How to Fix Nginx 403 Forbidden
An Nginx 403 Forbidden error means the request reached the server, but Nginx or an upstream layer refused to serve the requested resource. The most common causes are...
How to Fix Nginx 502 Bad Gateway
An Nginx 502 Bad Gateway error means Nginx accepted the client request but could not get a valid response from the upstream service. The upstream might be a...