Re: nginx Digest, Vol 178, Issue 3

2025-07-08 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Sorry for the noise guys. Tobiass those links you provided were just what I needed. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me. ___ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org https://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx

Re: nginx Digest, Vol 178, Issue 3

2025-07-08 Thread Matthew Ngaha
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nginx digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. Re: nginx Digest, Vol 178, Issue 2 (Matthew Ngaha) >2. Re: nginx Digest, Vol 178, Issue 2 (bruce) >3. Re

Re: nginx Digest, Vol 178, Issue 2

2025-07-07 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Like I said, those explanations are for people with Linux/programming knowledge. I'm struggling to understand what's being said. I.e this sentence is hard to comprehend: """Variables are e.g. useful for related repositories like packman (http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/$releasever), whic

Re: nginx Digest, Vol 178, Issue 1

2025-07-06 Thread Matthew Ngaha
person managing the list at > nginx-ow...@nginx.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nginx digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. nginx-1.29.

Re:

2025-07-06 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Sorry I forgot to include a title for the email. On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM Matthew Ngaha wrote: > > Hi all. I want to learn Nginx. I haven't started the tutorial yet but > I had an earlier edition back in the day. The tutor advises to install > Nginx from source. Is t

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2025-07-06 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Hi all. I want to learn Nginx. I haven't started the tutorial yet but I had an earlier edition back in the day. The tutor advises to install Nginx from source. Is this a good way to install nginx? Or should I use my package manager to install it? I'm on Linux Opensuse. If I use my package manager,

Re: Can't get https to work

2014-08-26 Thread Matthew Ngaha
I feel really stupid now:( Thanks that fixed it. On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:56 PM, kyprizel wrote: > Try to use 192.168.1.102:443. > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Matthew Ngaha wrote: >> >> I'm trying Nginx with Django on my localhost. I "Include"

Can't get https to work

2014-08-26 Thread Matthew Ngaha
I'm trying Nginx with Django on my localhost. I "Include" a django.conf in my main nginx.conf and in this included conf the "server" "listens" for both http & https and sends either requests upstream to django. My browser reports this error: http://bpaste.net/show/855f9e401b7e Here's my django.co

nginx reload, stop error

2014-07-18 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Hey, when I run './nginx -s reload' or './nginx -s stop' i get this: nginx: [error] open() "/usr/local/nginx-1.4.3/logs/nginx.pid" failed (2: No such file or directory) Any ideas why it's trying to open this file that doesn't exist? ___ nginx ma

config issue

2014-01-09 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Im trying to set up nginx with django. This is the instruction given: Symlink to this file from /etc/nginx/sites-enabled so nginx can see it: sudo ln -s ~/path/to/your/mysite/mysite_nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ The problem is this folder doesn't exist: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ my

trying to understand fastcgi

2013-12-22 Thread Matthew Ngaha
I was trying to understand the fastcgi forwarding. The example shows: server { server_name .website.com; listen 80; root /home/website/www; index index.html; location / { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_n

Re: alias

2013-12-13 Thread Matthew Ngaha
hey so out of all those config files i edited, i reloaded all of them and the changes weren't made. I think i stumbled onto the problem today. whenever it didn't work i always put the files back to their defaults before switching off my PC but this time i didn't. Today i didn't touch any config fil

Re: alias

2013-12-11 Thread Matthew Ngaha
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:17:25PM +0000, Matthew Ngaha wrote: >> The problem i've been having after looking in the error logs,is that >> it's still trying to find /admin/ in the default html root. > > That suggests that the configuration you are editing, and th

Re: alias

2013-12-10 Thread Matthew Ngaha
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:03:55PM +0000, Matthew Ngaha wrote: > Where does the example come from? It may be worth asking the author to > fix it. Hi Francis It was from nginx http server >> http { >>server { >>server_name localhost; >>

alias

2013-12-09 Thread Matthew Ngaha
hi all, i just had a quick question about this example. http { server { server_name localhost; root /var/www/website.com/html; location /admin/ { alias /var/www/locked/; } } } When a reque

location{} hassles:(

2013-12-04 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Hey all I can't seem to get the hang of how to use/write location blocks. I have mailed the list before and I do understand how it works but what I've tried fails. I have tried a few things and in both cases i don't think what i'm doing is making a difference. Here they are:

new to web

2013-11-29 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Hi guys i'm very new to web dev, and getting started with nginx i just wanted to ask a few things. Location blocks. Is the idea here to have as many location blocks as you have web pages? if a location has many files in it will nginx search if the requested file is in that location? i put a file "