/learningWebDevelopment

Learning-by-doing web development

Primary LanguageHTML

  • serving static website using nginx :
    https://medium.com/@jgefroh/a-guide-to-using-nginx-for-static-websites-d96a9d034940

  • troubleshooting nginx error : "nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1: "

    • $ sudo service apache2 stop
    • $ sudo apt-get remove --purge nginx nginx-full nginx-common
    • $ sudo apt-get install nginx
    • the commands above have also been used in updateServerFiles.sh

  • use the server block below instead of one in the medium article in /etc/nginx/sites-available/simpleWebsite.com : 

server {
  listen 120;
  listen [::]:120;  
  root /var/www/simpleWebsite.com;  
  index index.html;  
  server_name simpleWebsite.com www.simpleWebsite.com;  
  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
  }
}