Overview

Actionable Tasks

-Install NGINX -Editing default index.html -Setting up a sitename (vhost) blue.user.monschool.net -red.user.monschool.net from a .git repo. -symlink -nginx config -Configure SSL for red.user.monschool.net -Project: Setup Hugo -https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing/

Tests

-curl <public-ip>:80 from outside -verify the content of response body -Verify the site is running -check if symlink is proper -Check file permission not belonging to root user

What is NGINX

NGINX is a popular web server which is used to serve static assets, web applications and also act as a load balancer. Imagine you have created a small website for yourself but you want the world to see it. How do you do that? You need to serve these assets via a webserver. All these popular tools like Netlify etc also use their own versions of a web server.

Installing

sudo apt-get install nginx
sudo systemctl enable --now nginx

Verify it's running

curl localhost:80

Setup a static website

Let's create a mini HTML file to showcase how to configure NGINX to serve an HTML file.

Creating the file

TODO: Use nano and give links for vim.

We'll use the knowledge of vim from previous lesson and create an index.html file on the server.

`/var/www/html/`
mkdir ~/website && cd ~/website
vim index.html

Configure NGINX

Verify it's accessible from outside world

If you're interested in making this website available to the world, you'll need to explicitly allow access to it. Since the website is running on port 80, we need to configure a firewall rule which allows all IPs to connect to it.