What do you get when you combine the world's greatest web server with the world's greatest text editor? Well, not *quite* the best syntax highlighting file out there, but it's a start:

http://www.riceonfire.org/emiller/nginx.vim

Nginx has a beautiful configuration syntax and deserves to be colored appropriately. If you're a Vim user, this file will light up the valid directives in your nginx.conf, and it will highlight variable names inside of strings and URLs for easier reading. It's all done quite tastefully, if I may say so.

To install, download the above file into your ~/.vim/syntax/ folder (create that folder if it doesn't exist already). Then ensure that ~/.vim/filetype.vim has this line:

au BufRead,BufNewFile nginx.conf* setf nginx

Please note that these highlighting rules are very BETA as I just learned how to make this kind of thing three hours ago. Send comments, anomalies, and improvements my way.

My heart goes out to the list's Emacs users.

Evan