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 nginxsudo systemctl is-enabled nginxsudo apt install mysql-server -ysudo mysql_secure_installationsudo apt install php-fpm php-mysql -yphp --versioncd /var/www/sudo mkdir domain_heresudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/your_domainserver {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;}
}
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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