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Nginx configuration static analyzer

Language: Python

If is Evil when used in location context (2015) | Aug 2023
Use this static analyzer to check for such mistakes: https://github.com/yandex/gixy
Common Nginx misconfigurations that leave your web server open to attack | Feb 2021
Though deprecated, https://github.com/yandex/gixy is a nice checker for these kind of issues.
Show HN: Caddy 2 | May 2020
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Nginx requires too much configuration. It is very brittle if you do not have a full time DevOps person monitoring things. E.g. for production web apps, take a look at the amount of tooling that has been developed to manage Nginx:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/nginx

https://github.com/yandex/gixy

This is not a criticism of Nginx per se, it comes from a time when Apache is the only other alternative and end-user UX is hardly priority. An analogy would be systemd and pm2, pm2 have few advantages over systemd on paper but in practice it has a much more pleasant UX and saner defaults even though it requires a separate installation on most servers while systemd is available by default. It is the difference between Heroku and AWS. For the 99th percentile of efficiency Nginx still beats Traefik and Caddy, but sometimes scaling servers is cheaper than hiring DevOps staff.