Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "This section will be placed at the top of the nginx.conf configuration file."

A block of code is set as follows:

http {
    include       /opt/local/etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    sendfile on;
    tcp_nopush on;
    tcp_nodelay on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    server_names_hash_max_size 1024;
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ mkdir $HOME/build
$ cd $HOME/build && tar xzf nginx-<version-number>.tar.gz

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Clicking the Next button moves you to the next screen."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.