How to Install & Configure Nginx in Ubuntu 20.04

To Install & Configure Nginx in Ubuntu 20.04, do the following

Note: Do the following steps only on a fresh server.

 

First, connect to the server using SSH root and update the server using the following command

sudo apt update -y

 

Now, Install Nginx using the following command

sudo apt install nginx -y

To check if Nginx is installed and enabled or not run the following commands

sudo systemctl status nginx
sudo systemctl is-enabled nginx
 
 
Now, Install MySQL using the following command
 
sudo apt install mysql-server -y
 
After installation of MySQL, run the following command to secure and set a password for MySQL. This command will ask to set the password and configurations to secure the MySQL
 
sudo mysql_secure_installation
 
 
Now, Install PHP FPM and extensions using the following command
 
sudo apt install php-fpm php-mysql -y
 
After the installation of PHP is completed, check it by running the following command
 
php --version
 
 
Now, we need to configure the Nginx directive to setup the domain
 
Create a directory for the domain name using the following commands. (Replace "domain_here" with your domain name)
 
cd /var/www/
sudo mkdir domain_here
 
Create a new config file in Nginx for your domain using the following commands (Replace "your_domain" with your domain name)
 
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/your_domain
 
Then paste the following code in the file and change the domain name, and location path, and save the file.

server {
listen 80;
server_name your_domain www.your_domain;
root /var/www/your_domain;

index index.html index.htm index.php;

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
}

location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}

}

After that, save the file by doing CTRL+X and then y and ENTER to confirm.
 
Now we need to link the configuration file with Nginx’s sites-enabled directory, to run the following command
 
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/your_domain /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
 

After that, unlink the default configuration file from the /sites-enabled/ directory:

sudo unlink /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Now after these changes test the Nginx configurations by running the following command

sudo nginx -t

Now reload the Nginx configurations

sudo systemctl reload nginx

sudo systemctl restart nginx

 

That's it. Now you can create a test index.html file in /var/www/your_domain and open your domain in the browser to check it.

Do the above steps for setting up the second site.

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