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Re:Nginx UI – Access and modify the Nginx configurations fil... by Cthulhu_ on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:52AM (#23598106)
Generally speaking, a UI DOES have a use case - when you can't be bothered to learn the configuration language and its keys / values / nuances. The UI can help you create a sane and safe config, instead of having to scour the internet for - potentially outdated - information.

Mind you, I've had more trouble with that with Apache given how they changed their config files around on multiple occasions.

Re:Nginx UI – Access and modify the Nginx configurations fil... by allzeros on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:35AM (#23599982)
I'd argue that if you are neither willing nor able to learn nginx's config file format, you should not be configuring nginx. The default config has example blocks with comments anyway. If that's not enough, nginx maintains current documentation. But if you're configuring a web server (or anything, for that matter), you should take some time to learn how to configure it.
Re:Nginx UI – Access and modify the Nginx configurations fil... by jascii on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:44AM (#23601478)
This. I never understood the "every idiot can do it gui server" thing, just because everybody can doesn't mean everybody should.

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