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+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: {{ include "phpmyadmin-nginx.fullname" . }}-nginx
+  labels:
+    {{- include "phpmyadmin-nginx.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+data:
+  nginx.conf: |
+    user  nginx;
+    worker_processes  {{ .Values.nginx.config.workerProcesses }};
+    
+    error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
+    pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;
+    
+    events {
+        worker_connections  {{ .Values.nginx.config.workerConnections }};
+    }
+    
+    http {
+        include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
+        default_type  application/octet-stream;
+    
+        log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
+                          '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
+                          '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
+    
+        access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;
+    
+        sendfile        on;
+        tcp_nopush      on;
+        tcp_nodelay     on;
+    
+        keepalive_timeout  65;
+        types_hash_max_size 2048;
+        client_max_body_size {{ .Values.nginx.config.clientMaxBodySize }};
+    
+        gzip  on;
+        gzip_vary on;
+        gzip_proxied any;
+        gzip_comp_level 6;
+        gzip_types text/plain text/css text/xml text/javascript 
+                   application/json application/javascript application/xml+rss 
+                   application/rss+xml font/truetype font/opentype 
+                   application/vnd.ms-fontobject image/svg+xml;
+    
+        include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
+    }
+  
+  default.conf: |
+    server {
+        listen 8080;
+        server_name _;
+        
+        root /var/www/html;
+        index index.php index.html index.htm;
+        
+        charset utf-8;
+        
+        # Security headers
+        add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN" always;
+        add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
+        add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" always;
+        add_header Referrer-Policy "no-referrer-when-downgrade" always;
+        
+        # Disable access log for health checks
+        location = /healthz {
+            access_log off;
+            return 200 "healthy\n";
+            add_header Content-Type text/plain;
+        }
+        
+        location / {
+            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
+        }
+        
+        location ~ \.php$ {
+            try_files $uri =404;
+            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
+            fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
+            fastcgi_index index.php;
+            include fastcgi_params;
+            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
+            fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
+            fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
+            fastcgi_buffers 256 16k;
+            fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
+            fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
+            fastcgi_read_timeout 600;
+        }
+        
+        location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|svg)$ {
+            expires max;
+            log_not_found off;
+            access_log off;
+        }
+        
+        location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
+            deny all;
+        }
+    }
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