Nginx HTTP server boilerplate configs

[thiagotalma]

Hello @drybjed

When you have the time, take a look at this project: https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx

What do you think the role debops.nginx be based (usign your snippets) in this excellent project?

Cheers!

[drybjed]

@thiagotalma It's a very nice collection, however all of these files are basically static. Ansible templates offer you dynamic generation of config files with includes, variables, if/then/else statements, loops, etc. Of course some of the common configuration sections could be moved to a shared configuration snippet in /etc/nginx/snippets/ directory which is then included in the finished server config file (for example ACME support is done that way), but I don't think that many parts of the server configuration could be like that. For example, each server usually has its own set of SSL certificates, moving that to a shared, included snippet would break that functionality.

The configs you linked could be used to add some useful configuration in debops.nginx templates, but I don't see the role switching to them completely.