Live Activity Monitoring with the NGINX Plus API in 3 Simple Steps.md

Save the configuration below as nginx-plus-api.conf under /etc/nginx/conf.d/

server {
# Conventional port for the NGINX Plus API is 8080
listen 8080;

# Uncomment to use HTTP Basic authentication; see (3) above
#auth_basic "NGINX Plus API";
#auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/users;

# Uncomment to use permissions based on IP address; see (4) above
#allow 10.0.0.0/8;
#deny all;

# Conventional location for accessing the NGINX Plus API 
location /api/ {
    # Enable in read-write mode
    api write=on;

    # Uncomment to further restrict write permissions; see note above
    #limit_except GET {
        #auth_basic "NGINX Plus API";
        #auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/admins;
    #}
}

# Conventional location of the NGINX Plus dashboard
location = /dashboard.html {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}

# Redirect requests for "/" to "/dashboard.html"
location / {
    return 301 /dashboard.html;
}

# Redirect requests for pre-R14 dashboard
location /status.html {
    return 301 /dashboard.html;
}
}