fivemru / nginx-boilerplate

NGINX boilerplate

Step 0

Install nginx

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx

To enable the service to start up at boot, you can type:

sudo systemctl enable nginx

Step 1

Generate Diffie-Hellman keys:

sudo openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/dhparam.pem 2048

Step 2

Generate selfsigned certs for default_server:

sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/nginx/selfsigned-privkey.pem -out /etc/nginx/selfsigned-fullchain.pem

Step 3

Copy all files from this repo to /etc/nginx/*:

cd /etc/nginx/
sudo git clone https://github.com/fivemru/nginx-boilerplate.git
sudo cp -r ./nginx-boilerplate/* ./
sudo rm -fr nginx-boilerplate/ sites-enabled/default

Set up user in nginx.conf (www-data or nginx).

Set up ./letsencrypt.conf

Set up ./sites-enabled/site.com.conf

Step 4 (optional)

Create the directory for site.com:

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/site.com/public
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/site.com/public
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/site.com
echo "Hello world" > /var/www/site.com/public/index.html

Step 5

Check config and start / restart / reload

sudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl start nginx

Reload (soft)

sudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl reload nginx

Restart (hard)

sudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl restart nginx