Tag: nginx

Restrict access to part of path in Nginx

March 9, 2025 / abhijit

So, I have a site, let’s call it example.com. But I have multiple levels of directories under it. I have directories like /example.com/repositories and the actual repositories at the next level like so example.com/repositories/abcd or example.com/repositories/efgh.

Now, I only want access to example.com/repositories restricted. Everyone should be able to access the root level i.e. example.com and the nested subdirectories i.e. example.com/repositories/*.

Nginx config for SvelteKit SPA

February 6, 2025 / abhijit

For creating a SvelteKit SPA app, we first need to set up SvelteKit to have all the pages pre-rendered. For this, for every +page.svelte we need to add a +page.server.ts or a +page.server.js with the following –

export const prerender = true;
export const ssr = true;

This will create the corresponding pages for each route. For example, if we have a URL like example.com/about, we will have an about.html page getting created.

However, putting the build folder directly under a simple nginx config doesn’t work. Since the URL does not have an .html extension, even if those pages are there, nginx doesn’t show them.

Install code-server (VS Code for web) on Linux with Nginx

January 2, 2025 / abhijit

VS Code is the code editor of choice for many. However, when we want to do quick edits on some files on a remote server, and there is no access to VS Code, it becomes a bit of a hassle.

Also, sometimes VS Code is not accessible on a particular system and we might still want to be able to access local files and folders using VS Code.

This is where code-server is invaluable.

Nginx – folders as subdomains

December 31, 2022 / abhijit

I have a projects folder in which I put multiple folders, each having an html page.

So, the folder hierarchy looks something like this –

projects
|-sampleproject1
  |-index.html
  |-style.css
|-sampleproject2
  |-index.html
  |-style.css

I want to have each of these folders as subdomains to my domain, so I had to create an nginx conf file for each one with a different root path.

I was looking for way to have this done automatically using Nginx and finally found it!

setup Tiddlywiki with NodeJs server

October 18, 2021 / abhijit

I’ve always been fascinated by TiddlyWiki, which is considered a personal wiki and non-linear notebook (Wikipedia).

The main reason that was holding me back from using it was that every time I make changes, I would need to save it explicitly or use some browser extension.

I then discovered a very nice Tiddlywiki server on NodeJs (link).

I also wanted this to be password protected and this server provides simple and easy ways to do all that.

Install and run Metabase

October 18, 2021 / abhijit

Metabase is a data analyzer and visualizer tool which can connect to many types of databases.

It can do some smart analysis as well as let you write proper SQL queries to create charts and graphs.

Metabase is a Java application which can be run directly. Conversely, it can also be run via Docker.

moving from LastPass to bitwarden using vaultwarden (bitwarden_rs)

May 1, 2021 / abhijit

I have been using LastPass for password management since like forever.

I became a paid customer in 2014. It was initially $1/month. Then it got hiked to $2/month and currently it stands at $3/month. That’s $36/year which was working out too much for me.

Furthermore, the free option is limited to a single type of device. Since I wanted to use it across desktops and mobiles, there was no option except for the $3/month plan.

I had been looking at bitwarden for quite some time now but read that it’s too resource heavy. I then came to know of biwarden_rs which is a rewrite of bitwarden in Rust and compatible with upstream Bitwarden clients. I had then forgotten about this for some time until I head the news of it being renamed to vaultwarden via a Reddit thread.

nginx: [emerg] SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file failed for GoDaddy SSL

April 14, 2021 / abhijit

I got this weird error while deploying an SSL certificate from GoDaddy

nginx: [emerg] SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file failed (SSL: error:0909006C:PEM routines:get_name:no start line:Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY error:140B0009:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file:PEM lib)

pipe localhost to the internet using inlets over Nginx

February 21, 2020 / abhijit

Many times during developing some application it becomes important to show the progress to someone over the internet.

Most of the time we end up using some screen sharing software. That, however, can only show my screen to the other person. They cannot really interact with the application.

We can use some software for remote desktop sharing but then I cannot work while the other person is using my screen.

One very nice solution is ngrok, which essentially creates a tunnel from the local system to ngrok’s servers and gives a nice URL.

However, I was a bit concerned since all my traffic was getting redirected via ngrok’s servers.

I was looking around for something which would do the same thing but via my servers and finally came across inlets. This is an open source project, written in Go, which can be easily self hosted.

nginx auto-index styling

December 16, 2019 / abhijit

I’ve always been envious of the directory listing that Caddy has for serving files. Nginx also has the capability to list directories and files.

This is extremely useful to serve a directory out quickly over LAN or even where it is required to serve a directory listing instead of a web page.

However, the default Nginx styling leaves a lot to be desired!