nginx

Indexer Nginx Configurations

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Help I've never used Nginx!

Installation

Adapted from Digital Ocean - Installation on Ubuntu 18.04

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx

sudo ufw app list
#  Nginx Full
#  Nginx HTTP <- Choose this one while SSL is not be enabled
#  Nginx HTTPS <- Switch to this one later
sudo ufw allow 'Nginx HTTP'

# Confirm things are running
sudo ufw status
systemctl status nginx

# Enable restart on reboot
sudo systemctl enable nginx

Configuration

To configure Nginx a .conf file is added to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled which tells Nginx how to handle incoming requests.

Since we will be serving existing ports on our machine (instead of static sites), we will be using the reverse-proxy feature. Here is an example .conf file which allows anyone to access port 8000 on our server at http://indexer.mysite.com/

server {
    server_name indexer.mysite.com;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
        # ...
    }
}

After you make a change to a .conf file, you can test it and apply it using these commands:

# Check the config files are OK
sudo nginx -t

# Restart the service the the new configs
sudo systemctl reload nginx

That's pretty much it. You can do it!