All snippets

Reverse proxy

• Proxy an app mounted under a subpath 3 min →
• Reverse proxy to a local app 3 min →
• Load-balance across multiple backends 3 min →
• Proxy WebSocket connections 3 min →

Redirects & rewrites

• Redirect all HTTP to HTTPS 2 min →
• Redirect old URLs to new ones 3 min →
• Redirect www to apex (or apex to www) 2 min →

Static files & SPA

• Custom 404 and 50x error pages 2 min →
• Serve a static site 2 min →
• Single-page-app fallback to index.html 3 min →

Caching & compression

• Cache static assets in the browser 2 min →
• Enable gzip (and Brotli) compression 3 min →
• Cache upstream responses with proxy_cache 3 min →

HTTPS / TLS

• Serve the Let's Encrypt ACME challenge 3 min →
• A modern HTTPS server block 4 min →

Access & rate limiting

• Password-protect with HTTP Basic Auth 2 min →
• Raise the upload size limit (fix 413) 2 min →
• Rate-limit requests 3 min →

Test & operate

• Test the config and reload without downtime 3 min →