Getting Started

1. Prerequisites

• Running server
• Ability to SSH into your server
• Exposed public ports 80 and 443
• DNS records set to point to your server's IP address
• NodeJS and Git installed on the server

2. NGINX Installation

Follow these Steps: NGINX Installation Guide

3. Static Site Hosting

1. Install NGINX
2. Start NGINX via sudo systemctl start nginx
3. Open your host URL in the browser (Important: Use http, not https)
4. Add your host URL to the server_name via sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf (check the template default.confd for reference)
5. Validate your NGINX config via sudo nginx -t
6. Restart NGINX via sudo systemctl restart nginx

4. Setup SSL

1. Install Certbot via sudo apt-get install certbot python3-certbot-nginx
2. Start the certification process: sudo certbot --nginx -d [YOUR_HOST_URL] (append as many -d [HOST_URL] as are pointing to your server)
3. If the certificate was generated, but could not be installed, manually update your /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf to match default.ssl.conf up to line 34 (Don't forget to update the placeholders!)
4. Validate your NGINX config via sudo nginx -t
5. Restart NGINX via sudo systemctl restart nginx

5. Setup Reverse Proxy

1. Install the dependencies in nginx-tutorial/basic-api
2. Start a tmux session tmux new -s apisession
3. Run npm run prod
4. Detach you tmux session [CTRL + B] >> D
5. Open your /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
6. Add the following to your existing https server block:

   location /api {
   proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
   }

7. Validate your NGINX config via sudo nginx -t
8. Restart NGINX via sudo systemctl restart nginx

6. Setup Load Balancer

1. Install the dependencies in nginx-tutorial/basic-service
2. Start a tmux session tmux new -s servicesession
3. Run npm run prod
4. Detach you tmux session [CTRL + B] >> D
5. Open your /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
6. Add the following at the very bottom of the file:

upstream basicService {
    server 127.0.0.1:4000;
    server 127.0.0.1:4001;
}

server {
  listen 3333;
  location / {
    proxy_pass http://basicService;
  }
}

7. Validate your NGINX config via sudo nginx -t
8. Restart NGINX via sudo systemctl restart nginx

7. Misc

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