You may encounter the $connection_upgrade variable in your nginx configuration when working with Websockets or using an nginx config generator. The $connection_upgrade variable isn’t available by default. Yet, it’s a recommended practice to define and use it in your reverse proxy settings. This tutorial shows you …

When updating nginx to a newer version, you may run into deprecated configurations. Nginx uses a YAML-like definition format to create configurations. This format evolves over time by adding, removing, or changing keywords. This tutorial shows you how to fix nginx’s “ssl” deprecation warning telling you to use “listen …

Nginx is a powerful reverse proxy routing your domains from the Internet to your applications. This tutorial shows you how to serve a static HTML page with nginx. It walks you through the required paths, files, and configurations. {{outline}} Serve Static HTML Pages with nginx We created a snake browser …

We recently installed the (to this time) newest nginx version 1.17 on a new machine. The created configurations in sites-available were symlinked to sites-enabled, but nginx wasn’t serving any of the domains. The crux here, nginx used the different directory conf.d to store a catch-all default configuration. …

Application hosting can become messy over time. You may shut down applications, move applications to a new domain, or you need a subdomain for a limited time. You may need to clean up your nginx configuration here and there to keep your lean setup. Nothing is worse than keeping every …

We recently launched an internal website. This website doesn’t have a landing page and provides the feature on a URL path. We wanted to redirect all requests navigating the root path / to the feature page using nginx. Here’s how we solved it. {{outline}} Redirect the Root URL Path …

In the previous two tutorials, you've learned how to set up custom fonts on Android the modern way. Either as fixed font style (such as Noto Serif bold) or as font family (such as Noto serif in several weights). However, so far you've only used XML designs to configure app …

In the last tutorial, we've explored the modern way of implementing custom fonts on Android. However, it broke the support for dynamically changing the font style and weights (for example, bold or italic). In this tutorial, we'll fix this drawback and configure a font family with different styles. {{outline}} {{video} …