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Explore basic nginx configuration across ubuntu and centos, review nginx.conf, pid, and log files such as access and error logs, and verify running nginx processes.

Explains nginx configuration with nginx.conf in /etc/nginx, detailing directives (name and arguments with semicolons) and core contexts like events, http, and server, plus key settings such as worker_connections and access_log.

Configure nginx log files by adjusting error severity in error.log, manage context-specific logs, and create a custom access log format with a tailored set of fields, including request_time.

Learn to configure custom 404 error pages with nginx, understand file versus folder behavior, trailing slash redirects, and alias mapping to serve docs and PDFs using try_files and index directives.

Learn how nginx serves static content using the root directive and /var/www/html. Review the server context and listen directives for IPv4 and IPv6, and test with curl.

Configure nginx to serve files from /opt/appdev/docs via the /docs path, mapping /docs/index.html to /opt/appdev/docs/index.html.

Learn to configure nginx by editing nginx.conf and the include directive that points to sites-enabled/default, add a /docs location to /opt/appdev, restart nginx, and verify content on localhost.

Explore the difference between forward and reverse proxies, and learn how to configure nginx to act as a reverse proxy by forwarding requests to Tomcat.

Install OpenJDK and Tomcat on an Ubuntu server, start Tomcat, verify it runs on port 8080, and ensure nginx is running to forward requests to Tomcat.

Configure nginx as a reverse proxy to forward requests to Tomcat using proxy_pass, verify with curl, and route /examples to Tomcat while serving /docs from nginx.

Configure nginx for ssl to enable https with a certificate and key, then restart nginx and test with curl, noting hostname mismatch on localhost.