Nginx config

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Nginx is a powerful web proxy server. Recently, I used it to deploy my GoReactChatApp on VPS. The remaining applies to a ubuntu 18 server

Install

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sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx

Config fireware

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sudo ufw app list

you should see if Nginx installed correctly

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Available applications:
  Nginx Full
  Nginx HTTP
  Nginx HTTPS
  OpenSSH

Enable Nginx by

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sudo ufw allow 'Nginx HTTP'
sudo ufw status #to check

About Nginx service

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sudo service nginx start
sudo service nginx stop
sudo service nginx status

etc/nginx/nginx.conf

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user your_user_name;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    client_body_buffer_size 10m;
    client_header_buffer_size 1k;
    client_max_body_size 5m;
    large_client_header_buffers 2 1k;
    client_body_timeout 10;
    client_header_timeout 10;
    keepalive_timeout 5 5;
    send_timeout 10;
    server_tokens off;
    #gzip  on; on;
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

For a simple client/server project
with the floowing structure

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/home/
    -your_user_name/
        -client/
            -deploy/ #static files html/js/css
            -server_logs
        -server/ # your server could be node.js / golang

/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

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server {
    #listen       80;
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;
    server_name  your_domain_name;

    access_log /home/your_user_name/client/server_logs/host.access.log main;

    location / {
        root   /home/your_user_name/client/deploy;
        index  index.html index.htm;
        try_files $uri /index.html;
        add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
        add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
        add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
        add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains;";
    }
   location /api {
      proxy_pass http://localhost:5000;
 }
   location /ws {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:5000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}
    location /uploads {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:5000;
}
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }
    
    
    server_tokens off;

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny  all;
    }
}
   
}