NGINX HTTP Server

Installation

sudo apt install nginx

Run the service

sudo nginx

or

sudo systemctl start nginx.service

2.1.2. Configuration

• Create the web root folder /var/www/domain-one.com/public_html

• Create the file /etc/nginx/sites-available/domain.xxx.conf:

server {
     listen 80;
     listen [::]:80;
     server_name domain.xxx www.domain.xxx;
     root /var/www/domain-one.com/public_html;
     index index.html index.htm;
     location / {
          try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
     }
}

• Validate the configuration file has no syntax errors:

sudo nginx -t -c /etc/nginx/sites-available/domain.xxx.conf

HTTPS

Generation of Certificate from Let’s Encrypt

• Install certbot

sudo apt install certbot
sudo apt install python3-certbot-nginx

• Run certbot

sudo certbot --nginx -d domain1.xxx -d domain2.yyy

Configuration of NGINX server

• Set the following content for /etc/nginx/sites-available/domain.xxx.conf:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;
    root /var/www/html;
    server_name  domain.xxx www.domain.xxx;

    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot

    # RSA certificate
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.xxx/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.xxx/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot

    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot

    # Redirect non-https traffic to https
    if ($scheme != "https") {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot
}