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Install Nginx on Debian

Category: VPS Setup

Set up Nginx—a lightweight web server—on a Debian VPS for hosting—install with

apt update && apt install nginx

start with

systemctl start nginx

and enable on boot via

systemctl enable nginx

Open ports with

ufw allow 80 && ufw allow 443

then test with

curl http://localhost

—expect an Nginx welcome page Configure a site in /etc/nginx/sites-available/example com with

server { listen 80; server_name example.com; root /var/www/example.com; }

link it via

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

and reload with

nginx -s reload

On Linode this outperforms Apache for static content—add SSL with Certbot (apt install python3-certbot-nginx) for phpMyAdmin ensuring uptime with low memory use (~20MB)

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