Setting up NGINX server in the cloud server

NGINX can be used as proxy server or web server when running application on the cloud. Below are the steps to setup nginx server on the ubuntu

1. Connect to the server using ssh root@ip_address
2. Install nginx server by following below commands(Skip this step if already installed)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx # installing nginx server

sudo systemctl start nginx # starting nginx server

sudo systemctl enable nginx # enable nginx server

3. After successful installation you should find
/etc/nginx/sites-available/default file

4. You should be able to see nginx server success message like below when you access production server.

Useful information about nginx server:

• Below are commands to start/stop/restart nginx server

# Start nginx server
sudo service nginx start 

# Stop nginx server
sudo service nginx stop

# Restart nginx server
sudo service nginx restart

• Refer log files /var/log/nginx/access.log and /var/log/nginx/error.log for any issues

Happy Learning!!!