user www-data; # detect based on available CPU cores worker_processes auto; # this is 4096 by default. See /proc//limits and /etc/security/limits.conf # usually twice the worker_connections (one for uptsream, one for downstream) # see also LimitNOFILE=16384 in systemd drop-in worker_rlimit_nofile 8192; pid /run/nginx.pid; events { # a single worker has these many simultaneous connections max worker_connections 4096; } http { include mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; # required for long host names server_names_hash_bucket_size 128; access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log combined; sendfile on; # timeout for client to finish sending headers client_header_timeout 30s; # timeout for reading client request body (successive read timeout and not whole body!) client_body_timeout 60s; # keep-alive connections timeout in 65s. this is because many browsers timeout in 60 seconds keepalive_timeout 65s; # zones for rate limiting limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=admin_login:10m rate=10r/s; # 10 request a second include trusted.ips; include applications/*.conf; include applications/*/*.conf; }