I spent 6 hours today in Nginx configurations and logs, I learnt so much about Nginx and devops process. And in the end it was all because FireFox browser (I use desktop Ubuntu on my laptop) refused to connect to the server and get the sweet HTML pages I tried to serve it.

In particular, when I renounced attempts to serve HTML pages with explicitly stated location tags and launched my good old trusted Django and it STILL didn’t work (I got 499/403 in the access.log and 404 in the browser), I came to thinking something evil is going on here. It was an unexpected, and a bad one.

The moment I opened it in Google Chrome and it worked, dudes, if I was standing, I would fall that moment on my butt.

I immediately wrote to my Python friends "screw web, I will do webcam now". But, it was a rushed thought I soon gave up. Thankfully, I did not write that to my boss.