nginx.conf: remove OS-specific paths (getodk#621)

* nginx.conf: remove OS-specific paths

* README: include PWD in nginx paths

* Rename tmp dir to .nginx

* Remove unknown mime types/extensions

* Fix .gitignore

Co-authored-by: alxndrsn <alxndrsn>

.gitignore

@@ -27,3 +27,6 @@ npm-debug.log*
 *.njsproj
 *.sln
 *.sw?
+
+/.nginx/*
+!/.nginx/.gitkeep

README.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ First, install Node.js 14.
 
 Next, install dependencies by running `npm install`.
 
-Install NGINX. Depending on your operating system and how you install NGINX, you may need to change the absolute paths in the development [`nginx.conf`](/nginx.conf).
+Install NGINX.
 
 You will also need to set up [ODK Central Backend](https://github.com/getodk/central-backend). You will need to create a user using an ODK Central Backend command line script. You will probably also want to promote that user to a sitewide administrator.
 
@@ -48,10 +48,10 @@ Next, build ODK Central Frontend files for development by running `npm run dev`.
 Finally, run NGINX by changing the working directory to the root directory of the repository, then typing the following:
 
 ```bash
-nginx -c "$PWD/nginx.conf" -p "$PWD/dist/"
+nginx -c "$PWD/nginx.conf" -p "$PWD"
 ```
 
-NGINX effectively places ODK Central Frontend and ODK Central Backend at the same origin, avoiding cross-origin requests. We specify `-p "$PWD/dist/"` so that relative paths in [`nginx.conf`](/nginx.conf) are relative to `dist/`.
+NGINX effectively places ODK Central Frontend and ODK Central Backend at the same origin, avoiding cross-origin requests. We specify `-p "$PWD"` so that relative paths in [`nginx.conf`](/nginx.conf) are relative to the repository root.
 
 ODK Central Frontend will be available on port 8989.
 

nginx.conf

@@ -13,13 +13,34 @@
 #
 # One difference between this file and the configuration for production is that
 # this configuration does not support request body decompression.
+daemon off;
+error_log stderr;
+pid ./.nginx/nginx.pid;
 
 events {
 }
 http {
-  # This path may be different on your local computer depending on your OS and
-  # how you installed nginx.
-  include /usr/local/etc/nginx/mime.types;
+  access_log ./.nginx/nginx-access.log;
+
+  types {
+      text/html                             html htm shtml;
+      text/css                              css;
+      text/xml                              xml;
+      application/javascript                js;
+
+      text/plain                            txt;
+
+      image/png                             png;
+      image/x-icon                          ico;
+      image/svg+xml                         svg svgz;
+
+      application/font-woff                 woff;
+      application/json                      json;
+      application/vnd.ms-excel              xls;
+      application/zip                       zip;
+
+      application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet          xlsx;
+  }
 
   map $sent_http_set_cookie $session_cookie {
     ~^__Host-(session=.+)$ $1;
@@ -62,9 +83,7 @@ http {
     }
 
     location / {
-      # Specify the dist/ directory of the repository to `nginx -p` so that . is
-      # relative to dist/.
-      root .;
+      root ./dist;
 
       location /index.html {
         add_header Cache-Control no-cache;