Description

Installs and sets up the Nginx Webserver. The used packages originate from Brightbox and include Phussion Passenger support for Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.x and 2.x

Requirements

Attributes

Various parameters used for the reverse proxy recipe can be configured. If you do so make sure you override them in the override_attributes:

"override_attributes": {
  "nginx_ng": {
    "client_max_body_size": "10m",
    "proxy_connect_timeout": 5,
    "proxy_send_timeout": 500,
    "proxy_read_timeout": 500
  }
}

See attributes/default.rb for possible parameters and the defaults and a short description of what they do.

DH params

dhparams can be set to custom DH parameters, in order to be protected against logjam attacks. New parameters can be generated with the following command:

 openssl dhparam -out dhparams.pem 2048

Supply them as string containing newline characters.

Usage

Credits

This cookbook is highly influenced by Opscode's users and nginx cookbooks.