Default type handling in Nginx - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to set the default MIME type to text/plain.

Nginx

default_type [1];

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Aapplication/json

Btext/html

Ctext/plain

Dapplication/octet-stream

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a MIME type that is not plain text like application/json.

Forgetting the semicolon at the end of the directive.

The default_type directive sets the default MIME type for files without an explicit type. Here, text/plain is used to serve plain text.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to disable the default MIME type by setting it to an empty value.

Nginx

default_type [1];

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Anone

B'';

Coff

D''

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'none' or 'off' which are not valid values for this directive.

Including the semicolon inside the quotes.

Setting default_type to an empty string disables the default MIME type in nginx.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly set the default MIME type to application/octet-stream.

Nginx

default_type [1];

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Aapplication/octet-stream;

Bapplication/octet-stream

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Including the semicolon inside the value string.

Omitting the semicolon at the end of the directive.

The directive must end with a semicolon outside the value. The value itself should not include the semicolon.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to set the default MIME type to text/html and enable gzip compression.

Nginx

default_type [1];
gzip [2];

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Atext/html

Bon

Coff

Dapplication/json

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'off' for gzip when compression is desired.

Setting default_type to a non-HTML MIME type.

The default_type is set to text/html to serve HTML by default. The gzip directive is enabled with on to compress responses.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to set the default MIME type to application/json, disable gzip, and set the server listen port to 8080.

Nginx

default_type [1];
gzip [2];
listen [3];

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Atext/plain

Boff

C8080

Dapplication/json

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Confusing 'on' and 'off' for gzip directive.

Using the wrong port number for listen.

Setting default_type to a text MIME type instead of JSON.

The default MIME type is set to application/json for JSON responses. Gzip compression is disabled with off. The server listens on port 8080.