MichaelLustfield at 05:21, 23 November 2010

2010-11-23T05:21:31Z

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It took me a little while to figure this out and it's handy for creating one-off sites with "dynamic" content without a web framework.

<geshi lang="nginx">
user nginx;
worker_processes 1;

events {
worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;

sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 10;
gzip on;

server {
server_name localhost;
charset utf-8;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;

root /var/www;

location = / {
rewrite ^ /home redirect;
}

location / {
ssi on;
set $inc $request_uri;
if (!-f $request_filename) {
rewrite ^ /index.html last;
}
if (!-f $document_root$inc.html) {
return 404;
}
}
}
}
</geshi>

Then if you have an index.html file similar to this:

<geshi lang="html">
<html>
<body>

</body>
</html>
</geshi>

it will now include (via SSI) whatever page is requested. So for example /home would include home.html into index.html. This makes it easy to have a common style (headers and footers) without resorting to PHP or a framework.

It assumes home.html exists.

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MichaelLustfield at 05:21, 23 November 2010