Nginx directives

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#1

I’ve spent a good bit of time digging through the forums, I’ve seen lots of requests but no answers around this. Or maybe I’m missing a simple explanation.
I need to add a good number of custom directives to nginx, a basic template form or template config file.

I need to add fastcgi_cache_path before each server directive in nginx as well as set expire headers, paths to exclude from caching etc.

My perl is a bit rusty, haven’t used perl in many many years but I’ve been doing this in ansible with jinja templates and it’s breeze. Is there a way to add this easily? Many of the params would be the same for all hosts except the fastcgi_cache_path which would be set to the path for each virtual server so cache could be managed separately for each (I’ll write a wordpress module to handle this).

#2

Server Templates allows changing any of the config file bits that Virtualmin creates.

#3

Yes and no. It’ll add directives within the server block, but the fastcgi_cache_path needs to be outside the server block. The path would also need to be created for instance /home/username/cache so it also needs to grab the relevant username

#4

an example entry that I use on other servers

fastcgi_cache_path /web/html/domainname.com/cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=domanname:100m max_size=1g inactive=10m use_temp_path=off;

#5

@joshj71 from your posts you seems to know what to do - problem solved no? I would join to @Joe answer on this… really nothing else need to be done about it.

#6

Well I wouldn’t call it solved. Virtualmin doesn’t do what I need it to, not just this one issue, I have several issues with the product. So I’ve decided to drop virtualmin and go another route.