Setting up NginX

Version 2.5 by Manuel Smeria on 2012/12/18

Warning
  • This configuration is highly experimental and using it may be risky
  • You likely won't need NginX if you have just a couple of hundred users browsing your wiki

I'm running XWiki Enterprise on the Glassfish 2 Application Server.
NginX listens on vostrets.ru:80 and redirects HTTP queries to vostrets.ru:8080 and thus NginX is referred to as "frontend" and Glassfish as "backend".
Glassfish is installed in the /user/local/glassfish/glassfish folder.

For more information you can consult the NginX manual.

I've configured my NginX as follows (/etc/nginx.conf):

user www-data;
worker_processes  1;

events 
{
    worker_connections  1024;

    use epoll;
}

http 
{
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
 
    sendfile       on;
    tcp_nopush     on;
    tcp_nodelay    on;

    gzip on;
 
    server 
    {
	listen 80;

        server_name  vostrets.ru;

        # redirect all http://vostrets.ru/* requests to http://www.vostrets.ru/*
        rewrite ^(.*) http://www.vostrets.ru$1 permanent;
    }

    server 
    {
        listen 80;

        server_name  www.vostrets.ru;
        
        charset utf-8;

        access_log  /var/log/nginx_access.log;

        # count skin images for static data, though they are in "bin" path
        location ~* ^/xwiki/bin/skin/(.*)\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico)$ 
	{
            access_log off;

            rewrite ^/xwiki/bin/skin/(.*) /xwiki/$1 permanent;

            expires max;
        }

        # fetch all the data, which doesn't lie in "bin" path, as static data
        location ~* ^/xwiki(?!/bin/).+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|js)$
	{
            access_log off;

            # ${root} is the path, where the static files lie (i.e. ${root}/xwiki/skins/toucan/logo.png)
            root /user/local/glassfish/glassfish/domains/default_domain/applications/j2ee-modules;

            expires max;
        }

        # forward all http://vostrets.ru/ requests to http://vostrets.ru:8080/
        location /
	{
            proxy_pass              http://localhost:8080;
            proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header        Host $http_host;

            expires 0m;
        }

        # ...
    }
}

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