Deploy a static website on a webserver

Question

Hey Guys! I have a Linux system and I need to deploy a static website on it. I know I need to use webservers but I don't know how to?

Can somebody help me?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Hi @hannah. You are right, you need to use a webserver. Let me give you an example of how you can use Nginx. Follow these steps:

1. Install Nginx

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx

2. Move your static webpage content to the Nginx server. 

Create a directory in /var/www/example.com

Move all the contents into this example.com file.

Now you'll need to tell your Nginx about yours website

3. Configure you Nginx server, something like this:

server {
  listen 80 default_server;
  listen [::]:80 default_server;  root /var/www/jgefroh.com;  index index.html;  server_name jgefroh.com www.jgefroh.com;  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
  }
}

4. Now restart your Nginx server.

sudo systemctl restart nginx