Setting Up Nginx in Ubuntu

Setting Up Nginx in Ubuntu

This post describes how to setup nginx in ubuntu running in local system, AWS, GoolgeCloud or any cloud platform

• Login into system
• Update your package
  • sudo apt update
• Install nginx
  • sudo apt install nginx
• Start nginx
  • sudo service nginx start
• Check if nginx running
  • In Browser open http://localhost
  • In terminal run command curl localhost

  • In both cases you will see nginx welcome page.
    

• Make nginx route traffic to some server
  • go to dir cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/
  • create file vi myapp
  • add route inside the file

  server {    
         listen 80; 
         server_name www.androidlearner.com androidlearner.com;
             location / 
                 {
                     proxy_pass http://localhost:5000;
                    # proxy_redirect off;
                    # proxy_http_version 1.1;
                   #  proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                  #   proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
                   #  proxy_set_header Host $host;
  
                 }
  
  
  location /backend/
                 {
                     proxy_pass http://localhost:3000/;
                    # proxy_redirect off;
                    # proxy_http_version 1.1;
                    # proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                    # proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
                    # proxy_set_header Host $host;
  
                 }
  
  
  }```
  

• create link of this file inside /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
  • sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/myapp /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
• Reload nginx to reflect the changes
  • sudo service nginx reload

Nginx is setup in the system.
Please ensure your firewall is properly setup