# Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/desc/nginx_modules_http.desc,v 1.1 2010/03/07 10:37:51 hollow Exp $ # This file contains descriptions of NGINX_MODULES_HTTP USE_EXPAND flags. # Keep it sorted. access - This module provides a simple host-based access control. addition - This module adds contents of other locations before and after the current location's content. auth_basic - This module protects your site or parts of it with username and password based on HTTP Basic Authentication. autoindex - This module provides automatic directory listings. browser - This module creates variables, the values of which depend on the request header "User-agent". charset - This module can reencode data of one encoding into another. dav - This module adds the HTTP and WebDAV methods PUT, DELETE, MKCOL, COPY and MOVE. degradation - Unknown empty_gif - This module keeps a 1x1 transparent GIF in memory that can be served very quickly. fastcgi - This module allows Nginx to interact with FastCGI processes and control what parameters are passed to the process. flv - This module provides the ability to seek within FLV (Flash) files using time-based offsets. geo - This module creates variables, whose values depend on the IP-address of the client. geoip - This module creates variables based on the IP-address of the client matched against the MaxMind GeoIP binary files. gzip - This module allows for on-the-fly gzip compression. gzip_static - Before serving a file from disk to a gzip-enabled client, this module will look for a precompressed file in the same location. image_filter - This module is a filter for transforming JPEG, GIF and PNG images. limit_req - This module allows you to limit the number of requests for a given session. limit_zone - This module makes it possible to limit the number of simultaneous connections for the assigned session map - This module allows you to classify, or map a set of values into a different set of values and store the result in a variable. memcached - You can use this module to perform simple caching. passenger - Passenger makes deployment of Ruby web applications a breeze. perl - This module makes it possible to execute Perl directly within Nginx and call Perl via SSI. proxy - This module makes it possible to transfer requests to another server. random_index - Pick a random directory index from a directory. realip - This module allows to change the client's IP address to value from request header (e. g. X-Real-IP or X-Forwarded-For). referer - This module makes it possible to block access to the site with the incorrect values of line "Referer" in the request header. rewrite - This module makes it possible to change URI using regular expressions (PCRE), and to redirect and select configuration depending on variables. secure_link - This module computes and checks request URLs for a required security token. ssi - This module provides a filter which processes Server-Side Includes (SSI) in the input. stub_status - This module provides the ability to get some status from nginx. sub - This module can search and replace text in the nginx response. upstream_ip_hash - This module provides the ability to distribute upstream requests based on the IP-address of the client. userid - This module gives out cookies for identification of clients. xslt - This module is a filter which converts an XML response with the aid of one or more XSLT templates.