Nginx

nginx¶

nginx is a free webserver for linux

Install nginx:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx

Adjust ufw firewall to allow nginx to attach to HTTPS and HTTP ports:

sudo ufw app list
sudo ufw allow 'Nginx Full'
sudo ufw status

Note: You may have to stop the apache2 server and disable it from executing on startup

sudo systemctl stop apache2
sudo systemctl disable apache2

Start nginx and set it to start on bootup

sudo systemctl start nginx
sudo systemctl enable nginx

Note: start - starts the service now, enable - symlinks the service into the start on bootup folder

It is important to setup nginx server blocks that serve the urls being passed to nginx correctly.