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Adding a static website

Adding a static website

Owned by Mike Tango Bravo
Jul 19, 2023
2 min read

This section describes the steps for adding websites, following these references:

Nginx Multisite - Documentation

Generating SSL Keys - Let's Encrypt - Documentation

  1. Create a directory for the website HTML content.
    mkdir -p /usr/share/nginx/html/newsite.com

  2. Add default index.html

    <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>Site 1</title> </head> <body> <h1>Helo vino</h1> </body> </html>

  3. Change to /etc/nginx

  4. Create sites-available and sites-enabled

    mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-enabled mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-available

  5. Add sites-enabled support, by adding this line after (include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;)

    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf;

  6. Comment out the default server section

    #server { # listen 80; # listen [::]:80; # server_name _; # root /usr/share/nginx/www/html; # # # Load configuration files for the default server block. # include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf; # # error_page 404 /404.html; # location = /404.html { # } # # error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html; # location = /50x.html { # } #}

  7. Restart the webserver

    systemctl restart nginx

  8. Create the website configuration file (sites-available/newsite.com.conf)

    server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; # virtual server name i.e. domain name # server_name site1.server.test; # document root # root /usr/share/nginx/test.server.site1/html; # log files access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log; # Directives to send expires headers and turn off 404 error logging. # location ~* ^.+\.(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|rss|atom|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ { access_log off; log_not_found off; expires max; } }

  9. Activate the site

    cd sites-enabled ln -s ../sites-available/martianwinefederation.org.conf

  10. Test everything and restart

    [sites-enabled]$ sudo nginx -t nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful [sites-enabled]$ sudo systemctl restart nginx

  11. Add an SSL certificate with certbot

    sudo certbot --nginx --agree-tos --redirect --hsts --staple-ocsp --email mtb@costaflores.com -d ferment.openvino.org

  12. Remove the section that causes loops

    #if ($host = ferment.openvino.org) { # return 301 https://$host$request_uri; #} # managed by Certbot

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