Nginx Configuration

This gets you production-ready Nginx configs for reverse proxying, load balancing, and SSL termination without starting from scratch. It covers the essentials like HTTP/2, rate limiting, upstream health checks, and proper caching strategies. The reference guides include monitoring setup and scripts to automate configuration. Honest take: Nginx config syntax is notoriously finicky, and having working examples for common patterns like API gateways and multi-backend load balancing saves hours of debugging cryptic error messages. The best practices section actually helps, especially the warnings about not caching authenticated responses and keeping least_conn for load balancing.

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$ npx -y skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill nginx-configuration --agent claude-code

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Overview

Master Nginx configuration for production-grade web servers, reverse proxies, load balancing, SSL termination, caching, and API gateway patterns with advanced performance tuning.

When to Use

Reverse proxy setup
Load balancing between backend services
SSL/TLS termination
HTTP/2 and gRPC support
Caching and compression
Rate limiting and DDoS protection
URL rewriting and routing
API gateway functionality

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile 65535;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections 4096;
    use epoll;
    multi_accept on;
}

http {
    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type application/octet-stream;

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