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Course outline for Nginx
Connect the concepts, work through practical problems, and choose a training plan that fits your goals.
About Nginx
Nginx serves static content and routes requests to application services. Configure a local site and reverse proxy, verify routing and TLS behavior, and diagnose failures through logs without confusing forwarded headers with trusted client identity.
Nginx Course Objectives
- Understand Nginx processes and configuration contexts.
- Serve content and proxy requests to local services.
- Configure TLS and deliberate header handling.
- Test limits, timeouts, and upstream failure behavior.
- Validate changes and document operational recovery.
Pre-requisites
- Basic Linux, TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP knowledge.
- Familiarity with command-line tools and application servers.
- Basic shell scripting is useful for request tests.
Lab Setup
- Local Nginx installation or container, editor, curl, and a supplied sample backend.
- Synthetic static assets, test certificates, and request/failure fixtures.
- Use loopback or an isolated training network; no public domain, production certificate, or privileged system reconfiguration is required.
Detailed Course Outline
Architecture and Configuration
- Master and worker processes
- Events and connection handling
- Main, http, server, and location contexts
- Includes, validation, and controlled reloads
Static Content and Virtual Hosts
- Listening sockets and server names
- Document roots, indexes, and file permissions
- Location matching and URI handling
- Missing files and error responses
Reverse Proxy Fundamentals
- proxy_pass and upstream services
- Host headers and URI forwarding
- Connection and response timeouts
- Buffering and streamed responses
Load Balancing and Failure Handling
- Upstream groups and distribution methods
- Passive failure behavior and retry scope
- Non-idempotent request risks
- Distinguishing proxy success from application correctness
TLS and Security Boundaries
- Test certificates and TLS termination
- Redirects and secure cookie implications
- Forwarded headers and trusted-proxy configuration
- Access restrictions and sensitive path protection
Caching and Performance
- Static caching and response headers
- Proxy cache keys and bypass rules
- Compression and payload considerations
- Avoiding shared caches for private responses
Limits and Observability
- Request/body limits and rate limiting
- Access and error-log formats
- Correlation and upstream timing
- Diagnosing routing, permission, and backend failures
Operations and Safe Changes
- Syntax checks before reload
- Configuration backups and version control
- Measuring behavior under bounded load
- Restoring known-good configuration
Practical Exercise
- Serve a static site and proxy a local API
- Verify URI handling, TLS redirects, and forwarded-header assumptions
- Inject an unavailable backend and inspect error evidence
- Validate, reload, and recover configuration without exposing private content
How we train
Online training for Nginx
- Instructor-led live cohorts
- Self-paced learning with expert coaches
- 24x7 cloud labs with end-to-end examples
All sessions are 100% hands-on. Labs and activities are derived from real-world work our engineers deliver.
Classroom training
Available for corporate teams in:
- Bengaluru
- Chennai
- Hyderabad
- Mumbai
- Delhi/Gurgaon/NCR
- Pune
Note: Classroom training is for corporate clients only.
Self-paced hands-on sessions are delivered via VirtualCoach.