Installing Nginx

Nginx is web server software for dynamic processing of user requests, being a leader in its niche and used by major IT companies VKontakte, Google, Facebook and others.

Installing Nginx

Enter the Nginx installation command:

apt-get install nginx -y

Configuring Nginx

Go to sFTP at address /etc/nginx/sites-available and create a file server_name.conf (name can be anything), containing the following text with your data:

server {
    listen       *:80;
    server_name  aeza.net; # site domain
    client_max_body_size 1000M; # maximum file size transmitted through the site
    error_page 404 = @notfound;
    location / {
        root   /home/site/aeza; # path to the site
        try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/ @extensionless-php;
        index  index.html index.php;
    }
    # PHP connections, if not needed, then delete from line 12 to 19
    location ~ \.(php|html|htm)$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        root   /home/site/aeza; # path to the site
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock; # path to php
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Reload Nginx:

service nginx restart

Connecting PHP to Nginx

PHP is not required for working with Nginx. Use this part only for sites that require PHP script execution.

Run the following commands sequentially:

wget -q https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg -O- | apt-key add -
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ stretch main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list
sudo apt-get -y install php7.4 php7.4-{mcrypt,mysql,fpm}

Reload Nginx:

service nginx restart

Enabling SSL (encryption protocol)

Is an optional item that increases trust in your site

Modify the previously created config, bringing it to the following form

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name aeza.net; # site domain
    return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri; # redirect from http to https
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    server_name aeza.net; # site domain

    root /var/www/aeza; # path to the site
    index index.html index.htm index.php; # index pages

    access_log /var/log/nginx/aeza.app-access.log; # logs of successful connections
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/aeza.app-error.log error; # logs of erroneous connections

    # if something needs to be disabled, instead of the path to the file we write "off"

    client_max_body_size 1000m; # maximum file size transmitted through the site
    client_body_timeout 120s; # timeout value

    sendfile off; # after enabling Nginx will send HTTP response headers in one packet, not in separate parts.

    # SSL settings
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/aeza.net/fullchain.pem; # SSL certificate public key
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/aeza.net/privkey.pem; # SSL certificate private key
    ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m; # SSL session cache volume
    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
    ssl_ciphers "ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384";
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; # reduces site page loading time

    location ~ \.(php|html|htm)$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        root /var/www/aeza; # path to the site
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock; # path to php file
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Reload Nginx:

service nginx restart

Checking for Apache2

When using Nginx with Apache2, they will not be able to work correctly, conflicting for port - 80. Therefore, it is important to remove one of the web server software.

Check for Apache2:

service apache2 status

If you don't see a large message with information, then Apache2 is not installed.

To remove Apache2, enter:

apt-get remove --purge apache2* -y

Removing Nginx

To remove Nginx, enter the command to stop it:

service nginx stop

And then the command to completely remove Nginx:

apt-get remove --purge nginx*

Installing Nginx

Installing Nginx

Configuring Nginx

Connecting PHP to Nginx

Enabling SSL (encryption protocol)

Checking for Apache2

Removing Nginx

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