Generate simple Nginx 'vhosts' with a simple library/cli tool.
npm install nginx-generatorEasy simple way to create Nginx vhost files for fairly simple sites, such as a proxy to a Node.js server, a redirect
from one domain to another, serving a static site or setting up a config to serve multiple static sites from one
directory.
To install:
``bash`
$ npm install -g nginx-generator
To generate a simple redirect from www.chilts.org to chilts.org, just do:
`bash`
$ nginx-generator \
--name org-chilts-www \
--domain www.chilts.org \
--type redirect \
--var to=chilts.org \
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/org-chilts-www
Then reload Nginx
`bash`
$ sudo service nginx reload
Your vars can also be read from a JSON file, such as this:
`bash`
$ echo '{"to":"chilts.org"}' > vars.json
$ nginx-generator \
--name org-chilts-www \
--domain www.chilts.org \
--type redirect \
--data vars.json \
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/org-chilts-www
To generate a proxy that will forward requests elsewhere, just pass the usual three --name, --domain and --type
then pass both and port as --var variables:
`
$ nginx-generator \
--name org-chilts \
--domain chilts.org \
--type proxy \
--var host=localhost \
--var port=8000 \
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/org-chilts
To generate a vhost that will serve a static site, just pass the usual three --name, --domain and --type thendir
pass as a --var:
`
$ nginx-generator \
--name org-chilts-static \
--domain static-chilts.org \
--type static \
--var dir=/home/chilts/htdocs \
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/org-chilts-static
To generate a redirect, just pass the usual three --name, --domain and --type then pass to as a --var:
`bash`
$ nginx-generator \
--name org-chilts-www \
--domain www.chilts.org \
--type redirect \
--var to=chilts.org \
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/org-chilts-www
To generate a catchall for multiple static sites, create a directory which will hold all of the sites, then create a
directory for each site, named after the host it will serve. For example, this will serve example.com, chilts.org
and :
`sh`
$ mkdir /var/lib/sites
$ mkdir /var/lib/sites/example.com
$ mkdir /var/lib/sites/chilts.org
$ mkdir /var/lib/sites/nodejs.nz
Then, create this special vhost config:
`bash`
$ nginx-generator \
--name vhost \
--domain _ \
--type vhost \
--var dir=/var/lib/sites \
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/vhost
* add ability to set and define config for basic auth for any site
* add ability to make a site serve over https with config for certs
There are some other Nginx packages out there such as:
* https://www.npmjs.org/package/nginx-vhosts
* https://www.npmjs.org/package/ngineer
* https://www.npmjs.org/package/nginx-conf
* https://www.npmjs.org/package/nodeginx
However, I didn't want to control Nginx itself like nginx-vhosts and ngineer does, especially on Debian or Ubuntunginx-conf
machines since upstart already does this. All I wanted to do was template in some simple vhosts in a programmatic
(library or CLI program) way. Also, is too complicated since that's for the main Nginx config. nodeginx`
is closest to this package in terms of functionality.
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