[gettodachoppa]

Does nginx's configuration complexity mean anything in the age of ChatGPT?

I set up a whole reverse proxy stack on my personal webserver (thanks to the swag docker image: nginx + auto-renewing let's encrypt + fail2ban). I hadn't really done any web stuff before, certainly nothing on the public Internet.

I didn't have time to read the nginx doc so I had ChatGPT do most of it. I'd then ask for changes depending on the challenges of a specific webapp (for example, not requiring basic_auth on certain routes that were using the tool's own auth).

I realize this is a simple example, but if I was able to achieve all my goals quickly with zero prior experience, surely it can't be that hard for someone who does this stuff for a living.

[BrandoElFollito]

ChatGPT recently recommended rm -fr as the appropriate flags to delete files with confirmation.

Good luck with such setups. Best case they fail, worst case they become security nightmares.