Mastering Nginx

Directive Reference

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Directive Explanation Context/Default

auth_http_timeout The maximum amount of

time NGINX will wait when

communicating with an

authentication server.

Valid contexts: mail,

server

Default value: 60s

autoindex Activates the automatic generation

of a directory listing page.

Valid contexts: http,

server, location

Default value: off

autoindex_exact_

size

Indicates whether the file sizes

in a directory listing page should

be listed in bytes or rounded

to kilobytes, megabytes, and

gigabytes.

Valid contexts: http,

server, location.

Default value: on

autoindex_localtime Sets the file modification time in

a directory listing page to either

local time (on) or UTC (off).

Valid contexts: http,

server, location

Default value: off

break Ends the processing of the

rewrite module directives found

within the same context.

Valid contexts:

server, location,

if

Default value: -

charset Adds the character set specified

to the Content-Type response

header. If this is different than the

source_charset directive, a

conversion is performed.

Valid contexts: http,

server, location,

if in location

Default value: off

charset_map Sets up a conversion table from

one character set to another.

Each character code is specified

in hexadecimal. The files conf/

koi-win, conf/koi-utf, and

conf/win-utf include mappings

from koi8-r to windows-1251,

from koi8-r to utf-8, and

from windows-1251 to utf-8,

respectively.

Valid context: http

Default value: -