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title: The Nginx Resource
platform: linux
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# nginx

Use the `nginx` InSpec audit resource to test the fields and validity of nginx.

Nginx resource extracts and exposes data reported by the command 'nginx -V'

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## Availability

### Installation

This resource is distributed along with InSpec itself. You can use it automatically.

### Version

This resource first became available in v1.37.6 of InSpec.

## Syntax

An `nginx` InSpec audit resource block extracts configuration settings that should be tested:

    describe nginx do
      its('attribute') { should eq 'value' }
    end

    describe nginx('path to nginx') do
      its('attribute') { should eq 'value' }
    end

where

* `'attribute'` is a configuration parsed from result of the command 'nginx -V'
* `'value'` is the value that is expected of the attribute

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## Properties

* `compiler_info`,  `error_log_path`,  `http_client_body_temp_path`,  `http_fastcgi_temp_path`,  `http_log_path`,  `http_proxy_temp_path`,  `http_scgi_temp_path`,  `http_uwsgi_temp_path`,  `lock_path`,  `modules`, `modules_path`,  `openssl_version`,  `prefix`,  `sbin_path`,  `service`,  `support_info`,  `version`

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## Property Examples

### version(String)

`version` returns a string of the version of the running nginx instance

    describe nginx do
      its('version') { should eq '1.12.0' }
    end

### modules(String)

`modules` returns a array modules in the running nginx instance

    describe nginx do
      its('modules') { should include 'my_module' }
    end

### openssl_version(Hash)

`openssl_version ` returns a hash with 'version' and 'date' as keys

    describe nginx do
      its('openssl_version.date') { should eq '11 Feb 2013' }
    end

### compiler_info(Hash)

`compiler_info ` returns a hash with 'compiler' , version' and 'date' as keys

    describe nginx do
      its('compiler_info.compiler') { should eq 'gcc' }
    end

### support_info(String)

`support_info ` returns a string containing supported protocols

    describe nginx do
      its('support_info') { should match /TLS/ }
    end