Setup Nginx

Nginx(engine-x) is a popular open-source software used for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more.

In this article, we will continue our journey to the personal website.

Get start with Linux system

On this system, we don't have any GUI (Graphic User Interface), we only use codes and commands to do anything.

Go to Terminal, change your identity into root user by use command:

sudo -i

Then your username will change to root@hostname

Use following command to update your software-package-list, we do this before we install anything.

sudo apt update

Then, intall Nginx

sudo apt install nginx

And then, start Nginx service

sudo systemctl start nginx

Check the status of Nginx service

sudo systemctl status nginx

If you get this information, which means your Nginx service start successfully:

● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2023-10-16 19:09:25 EDT; 3h 2min ago
       Docs: man:nginx(8)
   Main PID: 1112 (nginx)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 2185)
     Memory: 5.4M
        CPU: 21ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service
             ├─1112 "nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;"
             ├─1114 "nginx: worker process" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" ""
             └─1115 "nginx: worker process" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" ""

Oct 16 19:09:25 ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop systemd[1]: Starting A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server...
Oct 16 19:09:25 ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop systemd[1]: Started A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.

Well Down! We will set our domain name in next article