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Nginx

Port: 80 Config: /opt/coderz/configs/nginx/nginx.conf HTML: /opt/coderz/configs/nginx/html/index.html Nginx serves three roles in the Coderz Stack:
  1. Landing Page — Serves the Coderz home page on port 80
  2. Reverse Proxy — Routes traffic to backend services
  3. API Gateway — Rate limiting, caching, and request logging (with Redis)

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Current Configuration

server {
    listen 80;

    # Landing page
    location / {
        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index index.html;
    }
}

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Adding Reverse Proxy Routes

To expose a service through Nginx (e.g., Grafana at /grafana): 
location /grafana/ {
    proxy_pass http://grafana:3000/;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}

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Reload Config Without Downtime

docker exec coderz-nginx nginx -s reload

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Access Logs

# Live Nginx access log
docker exec coderz-nginx tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log

# Or via Docker logs
docker logs coderz-nginx -f

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Custom Log Format for Kibana

To ship structured Nginx logs to ELK: 
log_format json_combined escape=json
  '{"@timestamp":"$time_iso8601",'
  '"client.ip":"$remote_addr",'
  '"http.method":"$request_method",'
  '"http.url.path":"$uri",'
  '"http.url.query":"$args",'
  '"http.response.status_code":$status,'
  '"duration_ms":$request_time,'
  '"http.user_agent":"$http_user_agent"}';

access_log /var/log/nginx/access.json.log json_combined;

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Security Headers

Add to the server block for production hardening: 
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header Referrer-Policy "strict-origin-when-cross-origin";
add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self'";