#nginx Articles


Update to nginx_alias_map

I've been doing a bunch of maintenance on my two blogs (company and personal) and one purpose has been to track down malformed and mis-mapped URLs on the site. Since both have been through changes in the underlying blog engine a couple of times, there are multiple sets of URLs …

Client Certs and Intermediate CAs

Why client certificates? RS wrote about Preventing drive-bys with client certs and although we'd discussed this method for some time, I hadn't deployed it yet. However, some recent log-spelunking had led me to determine that I liked the idea of a second layer of protection on some of my sites …

Pelican plugin for NGINX redirection

When I set out to move Gaige's Pages to a static web generator, chronicled in Gaige's Pages moves to static generation, I stated one of the reasons that I favored Pelican was because it is written in python, which is a language that I'm intimately familiar with. Not surprisingly, that …