This config stopped working a few years ago probably when hosts started
getting IPv6 and we need to allow ::1. Make sure we're only listening
on local loopback interfaces also.
There are currently no nginx.org builds for Debian 9, so we need to
use the package from Debian's repository. This package provides a
www-data user and group instead of an nginx one.
We can revert some of this after Debian 9 is released and official
builds come from nginx.org (though it might be useful to keep the
main nginx.conf as a template).
There was some knowledge floating around that 860 bytes was the
optimal size, I think it was from an Akamai engineer or something,
but the HTML 5 Boilerplate server configs use 256 bytes, and I
actually have HTML content that is less than 860 bytes, so I guess
I could benefit from compressing it. gzip compression is costly
for the compression side, but very quick for the client, so this
is a good thing.
See: https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx/blob/master/nginx.conf
This reverts commit a38d822fad.
The docs definitely recommend twice a day. From a note on certbot's
installation page:
> if you're setting up a cron or systemd job, we recommend running
> it twice per day (it won't do anything until your certificates
> are due for renewal or revoked, but running it regularly would
> give your site a chance of staying online in case a Let's
> Encrypt-initiated revocation happened for some reason). Please
> select a random minute within the hour for your renewal tasks.
See: https://certbot.eff.org/#ubuntuxenial-nginx
Take an opinionated stance on HTTPS and assume that hosts are using
HTTPS for all vhosts. This can either be via custom TLS cert/key
pairs defined in the host's variables (could even be self-signed
certificates on dev boxes) or via Let's Encrypt.
Google's PageSpeed Insights tool pointed out that the Genericons
in WordPress' Jetpack module could be compressed.
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nginx is caching HEAD requests, then when users come along and do
a GET request they get an HTTP 200 with no request body. It seems
setting fastcgi_request_methods to GET doesn't stop nginx from caching
HEADs, so for now just add the $request_method to the key.
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Bypasses caching for logged in users (right now only for sessions
where the "wordpress_logged_in" cookie is set. Doubles the trans-
actions per second as measured by siege:
$ siege -d1 -t1M -c50 https://mjanja.ch
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Alan Orth