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@sun4lower
sun4lower / NginxReloadBug
Created February 28, 2018 08:57
nginx: [error] invalid PID number "" in "/var/run/nginx.pid"
pkill -9 nginx
nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
nginx -s reload
@Jeiwan
Jeiwan / lightsail-docker.sh
Last active October 25, 2024 11:09 — forked from davidkryzaniak/lightsail-docker.sh
Auto-Install Docker and Docker Compose on AWS Lightsail
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D
echo "deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y linux-image-extra-$(uname -r) linux-image-extra-virtual
sudo apt-get install -y docker-engine
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.9.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo groupadd docker
@fntlnz
fntlnz / self-signed-certificate-with-custom-ca.md
Last active April 23, 2025 14:10
Self Signed Certificate with Custom Root CA

Create Root CA (Done once)

Create Root Key

Attention: this is the key used to sign the certificate requests, anyone holding this can sign certificates on your behalf. So keep it in a safe place!

openssl genrsa -des3 -out rootCA.key 4096
@cecilemuller
cecilemuller / letsencrypt_2020.md
Last active January 9, 2025 12:22
How to setup Let's Encrypt for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 (including IPv6, HTTP/2 and A+ SSL rating)

How to setup Let's Encrypt for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 (including IPv6, HTTP/2 and A+ SLL rating)


Virtual hosts

Let's say you want to host domains first.com and second.com.

Create folders for their files:

@Techcable
Techcable / LICENSE
Last active April 26, 2025 22:40
All rights reserved License
All Rights Reserved
Copyright (c) ${project.inceptionYear} ${owner}
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
@paulswartz
paulswartz / ssl_proxy.config
Created October 14, 2014 18:01
SSL Forwarding Proxy w/ nginx
# run as 'nginx -p . -c ssl_proxy.config'
daemon off;
http {
server {
listen localhost:8443;
server_name localhost;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate ../pooling-ui/certs/server.crt;
@soheilhy
soheilhy / nginxproxy.md
Last active April 11, 2025 06:29
How to proxy web apps using nginx?

Virtual Hosts on nginx (CSC309)

When hosting our web applications, we often have one public IP address (i.e., an IP address visible to the outside world) using which we want to host multiple web apps. For example, one may wants to host three different web apps respectively for example1.com, example2.com, and example1.com/images on the same machine using a single IP address.

How can we do that? Well, the good news is Internet browsers