Debian /
Nginx
- How to setup Nginx on Debian
First of all you would need to "ssh" to you're server:
ssh user@127.0.0.1
After successfully loged in on you're server:
sudo apt install nginx
Start Nginx:
sudo systemctl start nginx
Enable to start at reboot:
sudo systemctl enable nginx
Check Nginx status:
systemctl status nginx
> Output should be similar to:
init@init ~ % systemctl status nginx ● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset:> Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-10-29 14:02:24 CEST; 1min 22s ago Docs: man:nginx(8) Process: 3813 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_proce> Process: 3815 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on; (c> Main PID: 3816 (nginx) Tasks: 3 (limit: 2201) Memory: 6.2M CPU: 49ms CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service ├─3816 "nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master> ├─3817 "nginx: worker process" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" ""> └─3818 "nginx: worker process" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" ""> init@init ~ %
You're default web root path is:
cd /var/www/html/ `ls`
Output:
init@init /var/www/html % ls index.nginx-debian.html init@init /var/www/html %
Curl you're server IP address should give you the output of "Welcome to nginx."
curl 127.0.0.1
Output >
init@init /var/www/html % curl 127.0.0.1 <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Welcome to nginx!</title> <style> body { width: 35em; margin: 0 auto; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>Welcome to nginx!</h1> <p>If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required.</p> <p>For online documentation and support please refer to <a href="http://nginx.org/">nginx.org</a>.<br/> Commercial support is available at <a href="http://nginx.com/">nginx.com</a>.</p> <p><em>Thank you for using nginx.</em></p> </body> </html> init@init /var/www/html %
Edit or setup specific domain names on Nginx:
cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Copy the default
cp default example.domain
You will find there a helpful documentacion how to do that as example:
vim example.domain
server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name example.domain; root /var/www/example.domain; index index.html; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; } }