Currently this can be used to create configuration for NginX websites
with best practice (I hope).

Probably this will be extended in future to other things.

Config generator

This is a generator for complex configuration files.

• Easy to use
• Easy to extend
• mostly pure bash (plus a few standard utilities)

All you need is to make love.

Usage

git init conf
cd conf
git fetch https://github.com/hilbix/empty.git
git reset FETCH_HEAD
git tag empty
git submodule add https://github.com/hilbix/gen.git
git submodule update --init
ln -s gen/Makefile .
git add -A .
git commit -m .

Example:

ln -s gen/example.org gen/letsencrypt.http .
make

• It transforms all *.* files into out/ according to gen/std/.
• You can adapt/override everything in the directory gen/

HowTo

• Please read the introductory comment in gen.sh
• For an example see letsencrypt.http or example.org
• The configuration snippets are in std/ directory
• make debug when something breaks

FAQ

Hints?

• observatory.mozilla.org

WTF why?

• Because keeping a fleet of sites with all those changing standards is a PITA.
• Hence I needed something to bundle it.
• The problem is with NginX not offering configuration macros, so you need some script to create the site include.

Why Makefiles?

• Because I’m just too lazy. So I expect make to just do it for me.
• Also Makefiles are excellent documentation of what is possible where

Bugs? Contact?

• Issue on GitHub, eventually I listen.

Changes? Contrib?

• PR on GitHub, eventually I listen.

License?

• Are you kidding? This is an absolutely trivial basic open knowledge no-brainer!
• In this universe there are some basic rules, and one is that things like this here cannot be copyrighted.
• So this is Public Domain. Open speech. Rants. Whatever you like.
• INTELLECTUAL PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE SLAVERY! Slavery must be abolished.

But ..

• No! Definitively no. No buts, no objections, no nothing. No not no!
• The scripting I did was done in a hurry. And there is absolutely nothing to it. Plain straight forward.
• There was something needed to reduce the NginX config complexity. This is, what came out.
• This all is a no-brainer. This text here is even more difficult to understand than the Makefile!
• Please see this all here as just some mini-dump of a region of my brain, openly performed to an open audience.