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

Re: alias

2013-12-10 Thread Matthew Ngaha
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:03:55PM +, 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; root /var/www/website.com/html; location

Re: alias

2013-12-11 Thread Matthew Ngaha
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:17:25PM +, 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 the configuration that nginx is using

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

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

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

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 kypri...@gmail.com wrote: Try to use 192.168.1.102:443. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Matthew Ngaha chigga...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying Nginx with Django on my localhost. I Include