Nginx – Beginner to Advanced

Course Curriculum

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Course

Lecture 2: Our Community

Chapter 1: Setting Up Labs

Lecture 1: Introduction to Nginx

Lecture 2: Installation Methods for Nginx

Lecture 3: Our Lab Setup

Lecture 4: Document – MSSP

Lecture 5: Launching Infrastructure for Nginx

Lecture 6: Installing Nginx

Lecture 7: Document – Install Nginx

Lecture 8: Notes – Section 1

Chapter 2: HTTP Protocol

Lecture 1: Introduction to Protocols

Lecture 2: HTTP – Protocol

Lecture 3: HTTP – GET

Lecture 4: HTTP – Partial GET

Lecture 5: HTTP – Conditional GET

Lecture 6: HTTP POST

Lecture 7: HTTP – Head

Lecture 8: HTTP Trace

Lecture 9: HTTP – OPTIONS Header

Lecture 10: HTTP Request Methods

Lecture 11: HTTP Response Status Code

Lecture 12: Notes – Domain 2

Chapter 3: Getting Started with NGINX

Lecture 1: Understanding NGINX Architecture

Lecture 2: Important Note

Lecture 3: Configuration Contexts

Lecture 4: Understanding HTTP Contexts

Lecture 5: Nginx Command Line Options

Lecture 6: Include Directive

Lecture 7: Understanding Server Blocks / Virtual Hosts

Lecture 8: Configuring Multiple Websites on Nginx

Chapter 4: Reverse Proxy

Lecture 1: Overview of Reverse Proxy Setup

Lecture 2: Configuring NGINX as a Reverse Proxy

Lecture 3: Document – Reverse Proxy Setup

Lecture 4: X-Real-IP

Lecture 5: Document – X-Real-IP Configuration

Lecture 6: Proxy Host Header

Lecture 7: Document – Proxy Host Header Commands

Chapter 5: Load Balancers

Lecture 1: Introduction to Load Balancers

Lecture 2: Implementing Nginx as Load Balancer

Lecture 3: Document – Load Balancing Configuration

Lecture 4: Understanding Health Checks

Lecture 5: Active vs Passive Health Checks

Lecture 6: Health Check Parameters

Lecture 7: Traffic Distribution Method – Server Weight

Lecture 8: Least Connect Method

Chapter 6: The Caching Subsystem

Lecture 1: Introduction to HTTP Caching (New)

Lecture 2: Understanding the HTTP Cache Control Headers (New)

Lecture 3: Cache Control Headers: no-store (New)

Lecture 4: Adding no-store response header in Nginx (New)

Lecture 5: If-Modified-Since Header (New)

Lecture 6: Introduction to Cache-Control Headers

Lecture 7: The Q Factor

Lecture 8: Cache Control : no-cache and must-re validate

Lecture 9: Cache Control Headers : max-age & s-max-age

Lecture 10: Cache Time & Browser Analysis

Lecture 11: Expires Header

Lecture 12: Understanding the Keep Alive connections

Lecture 13: Date & Expires Header

Chapter 7: Static Assets

Lecture 1: Understanding Static Assets

Lecture 2: Configure Reverse Proxy with Static Assets

Chapter 8: Access Control

Lecture 1: White Listing

Lecture 2: limit_connection module

Lecture 3: Basic Authentication

Lecture 4: Basic Authentication Practical

Lecture 5: Understanding Hashing

Lecture 6: Understanding Digest Authentication

Lecture 7: Digest Authentication Practical

Lecture 8: GeoIP

Chapter 9: Logging Subsystem

Lecture 1: Access Logs

Lecture 2: Configuring Custom Access Logs

Lecture 3: Error Logs

Chapter 10: HTTP Compression

Lecture 1: HTTP Compression

Lecture 2: Accept Content Encoding

Lecture 3: Getting started with Gzip for Nginx

Chapter 11: Yet To Decide

Lecture 1: HTTP Referrer

Lecture 2: Accept Language & Content Language

Chapter 12: Modular Architecture of Nginx

Lecture 1: Understanding the Modular NGINX Architecture

Lecture 2: Compiling Nginx from Source

Lecture 3: Document – Compilation of Nginx

Lecture 4: Building Dynamic Modules for Nginx

Lecture 5: Document – Dynamic Modules Compilation

Lecture 6: Building Static Modules for Nginx

Lecture 7: Document – Static Modules Compilation

Lecture 8: Web Application Firewall

Lecture 9: Installing & Configuring WAF on Nginx

Lecture 10: WAF – Custom Messages on Rule Matching Patterns

Chapter 13: Cryptography Module

Lecture 1: Our Community