HTTP

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Basics

  • HTTPie is a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

User and group

See also *nix#Users

Servers

Nginx

  • nginx [engine x] is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Igor Sysoev started development of Nginx in 2002, with the first public release in 2004. Nginx now hosts nearly 12.18% (22.2M) of active sites across all domains. Nginx is known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.

Configuration

Site setup

Site folder location can vary.

/var/www
  debian
/etc/nginx/html
  arch linux

Create 'Server Block' (vhost) config file in

/etc/nginx/sites-available

and later ln -s them in

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled

Enable logging in vhost conf;

error_log /var/log/nginx-vhostnamehere.log error;

Modules

  • Nginx modules must be selected during compile, run-time selection of modules is not currently supported.

Tools

Apache

Other

Performance

Web server logs

Combined Log Format

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\"" combined

old skool;

Apache

Nginx

error_log  /var/log/nginx/domain.name/error.log;
access_log  /var/log/nginx/domain.name/access.log;

GoAccess

  • GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly.

Control panels

Analytics

Piwik

  • Piwik is downloadable, Free/Libre (GPLv3 licensed) real time web analytics software. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors; the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages, and much more.

Google