Configuration inventory
Summarizes each parsed server block by listener, server name and proxy, static or other operating mode.
Day 042 / DevOps / Nginx
Nginx Config Checklist
/ Overview
A dependency-free Python CLI that turns a local Nginx configuration into a deterministic server-block inventory and focused review checklist.
Nginx configuration can span nested blocks, comments, quoted values and included files. A reviewer needs a quick inventory of server blocks and a short list of configuration details to revisit without running Nginx or changing a live service.
/ Provided servicesClear thinking.
Clear thinking.
Practical delivery.
Focused review signals
Surfaces missing routing details, incomplete TLS pairs, repeated listener/name sets, enabled autoindex and unresolved include directives.
Read-only boundaries
Processes a local UTF-8 file without invoking Nginx, following include files, reloading services or making network requests.
/ Solution
Nginx Config Checklist tokenizes one bounded local configuration, parses nested blocks and produces a deterministic inventory of listeners, server names and proxy or static mode. It flags missing listeners or names, incomplete TLS certificate/key pairs, duplicate route combinations, enabled autoindex and unresolved includes, while making no network or service changes.
/ Impact
Server-block inventory
Five focused review rules
High, warning and informational findings
Quoted values and comments supported
Two-megabyte input boundary
Up to 100 server blocks
Text and JSON output
Eleven standard-library tests included
Python standard library
Argparse, pathlib, JSON and collections provide the complete dependency-free command-line workflow.
Nginx configuration syntax
A small tokenizer and recursive parser handle comments, quoted values, directives and nested blocks within the documented scope.
Unittest
Eleven tests cover parsing, malformed input, focused rules, privacy-conscious evidence, the server limit and CLI exit behavior.