Nginx

  • Designed for high performance and low resource usage, often used as a reverse proxy or load balancer.

  • It employs an event-driven architecture, handling many requests in a single thread, which allows it to efficiently serve static content and handle a large number of concurrent connections with minimal memory usage.

Configuration files
Standard
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Additional Configuration file
/etc/nginx/conf.d/
Logs
/var/log/nginx/access.log
/var/log/nginx/error.log
  • Look for Virtual Hosts in the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled file:

grep -r "server {" /etc/nginx/

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