The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. Hypertext documents include hyperlinks to other resources that the user can easily access, for example, by a mouse click or tap on the screen in a web browser.
error_page Mozilla 404 /usr/share/nginx/errors/404.html;
client_body_size 10m;
location /
{
http_methods GET POST DELETE;
index index.html
upload_status on; //if it's "on," you should add the "upload_path"; otherwise, if it's "off," there is no need for "upload_status."
upload_path /usr/share/nginx/upload; //depends on "upload_status"
}
}
```
You have to base your server on this example but You have tested more complex configurations with multiple locations and ports and multiple servers such as :
```
{
server {
listen 80;
server_address 127.0.0.1;
server_name localhost;
...
...
...
location ...{
}
location ...{
}
}
server {
listen 5000;
listen 5001;
server_address 192.182.2.1;
server_name 01edu.com;
...
...
...
location ...{
}
}
server {
listen 5001;
listen 5002;
listen 5003;
server_address 192.186.2.54;
server_name hello.com;
...
...
...
location ...{
}
location ...{
}
location ...{
}
}
}
```
The Main Rules:
- Choose the host(server_address) and a port or multiple ports of each server.
- The first server for a host: port will be the default if the server_name didn't mutch any other servers server_name.
- Setup default error pages.
- Limit client body size In uploading.
- Setup routes with one or multiple of the following rules/configuration (routes won't be using regexp):
- Define a list of accepted HTTP methods for the route.
- Define an HTTP redirection.
- Define a directory or a file from where the file should be searched (for example, if URL /test is rooted to /usr/share, url /test/tmp/folder1/folder2 is /usr/share/test/tmp/folder1/folder2).
- Turn on or off the directory listing.
- Set a default file to answer if the request is a directory.
to check the syntax of the config file you must run this :
```console
$ ./localhost -t GoodConfigFile.conf
Localhost : the configuration file GoodConfigFile.conf syntax is ok
