8. Optimizing nginx

Website use analytics are nowadays usually done with Google Analytics.

# access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

Gzip

gzip_vary on;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_comp_level 4;
gzip_min_length 860;
# gzip_buffers 16 8k;
# gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript 
    text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript image/svg+xml;

Changing upload limits

/etc/php5/fpm/php.ini

upload_max_filesize = 20M

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

• under basic settings

client_max_body_size 20M;