Customer should be able to set nginx rules

[Tommy10]

I have a lot of customers who want to use nginx with WordPress. That because they need access to the nginx rules field. I cannot find any way to let them get access to it.

 

[IgorG]

If I correctly understood you mean access to Additional nginx options in Plesk UI? This is a potentially dangerous feature therefore, only admins have access. You can create additional admin's account if you trust your customer.

 

[Tommy10]

Why are the additional nginx options a security issue? Aren't they fully validated through nginx before they are saved? If not: Why not just add a feature to validate them? https://wincent.com/wiki/Checking_nginx_config_file_syntax

 

[IgorG]

security issue

Not only security problem may arise, most probably performance issues may be there.

 

[Tommy10]

But aren't these performance issues also possible with htaccess files for apache?

We need the nginx rules UI field to set important settings like similar for htaccess (example: WordPress).

Our customers really like to use nginx (it's fast!) but don't like to ask us each time to add specific WordPress nginx rules to their domains.

 

[Huskynarr]

Specifically for apps it would have determined a solution to offer it there.
So the Plesk makes some of the work and specifically choose a server.

 

[UFHH01]

IF ( and only IF this is really the case! ) you would like a customer being able to add their own nginx - rules, you are able to insert an "include" inside the customers additional nginx directives box ( which will lead to create the file "/var/www/vhosts/system/domain.tld/conf/vhost_nginx.conf" ). The "include" can be linked to any location, where the customer has access to, as for example the webspace - root and you might give the customer the information about the location specification.

Example inside "vhost_nginx.conf":

    # Special modifications to unique nginx rules
    include /var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/httpdocs/.customer_config/customer_nginx.conf;
    # Special modifications to unique nginx rules

The customer is now able to add his own nginx directives inside the file "/var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/httpdocs/.customer_config/customer_nginx.conf", after the folder ".customer_config" and the file "customer_nginx.conf" have been created.


Pls. note, that this example is insecure and not recommended, so pls. use this at your own risk!