GitHub Action: Setup NGINX

This action sets up a NGINX web server.

• Runs on Linux, macOS and Windows GitHub runners
  • On Linux, assumes it is pre-installed
  • On macOS, installs using Homebrew
  • On Windows, assumes it is pre-installed
• Overrides default configuration with a simpler and more cross-platform consistent one (can be user-supplied)
• As output, provides the location of the root html dir, process ID, and access and error log files.
• Easy to check that IT DOES NOT contain malicious code.

Usage

steps:
  - uses: nyurik/action-setup-nginx@v1
    id: nginx

  - run: |
      echo "Hello, world!" > "${{ steps.nginx.outputs.html-dir }}/index.html"
      
      curl http://localhost:${{ steps.nginx.outputs.port }}/
      # Expected output: Hello, world!

      cat "${{ steps.nginx.outputs.access-log }}"
      # Expected to contain a line with   GET /   HTTP/1.1   200      

Input parameters

Param	Description	Default
port	The port number to use for the NGINX service, unless conf-file-text is set.	8080
conf-file-text	Optional content of the nginx.conf file, overrides the default one

Outputs

Value	Description
bin	The path to the NGINX binary.
conf-path	The path to the NGINX configuration file.
html-dir	Default directory NGINX service uses as the root. This can be overridden by conf-file-text.
pid	The process ID of the NGINX service.
port	The port number used by the NGINX service.
access-log	The path to the NGINX access log file, unless conf-file-text is provided.
error-log	The path to the NGINX error log file, unless conf-file-text is provided.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.