Configure HTTP Nginx

Configure HTTP Nginx

by John Vincent

Posted on May 12, 2018

This is part of a series of discussions regarding Deploying to a Digital Ocean Droplet.

For more details, please see Deploy TaskMuncher

Configure HTTP Nginx

Create HTTP configurations for

  • www.taskmuncher.com

Configuration

Stop Nginx

sudo systemctl stop nginx

Remove default site

cd /etc/nginx/
sudo rm sites-enabled/default
sudo rm sites-available/default

Create directories for http and https configurations

cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
sudo mkdir http https

Configuration the domain

Create web server files

cd /var/www
sudo mkdir -p taskmuncher/html/.well-known

Note, the .well-known is for the SSL certs tasks.

For the domain, create file

* sudo vi /var/www/taskmuncher/html/index.html
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Welcome to {{DOMAIN-NAME}}com!</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Success!  The {{DOMAIN-NAME}} server block is working!</h1>
    </body>
</html>

Change the directory ownership

sudo chown -R jv:jv /var/www/taskmuncher/html

Change ownership of files

cd /var/www/taskmuncher/html
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0755 # For directories
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0644 # For files

Configure taskmuncher.com

sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/http/taskmuncher
server {
  listen 80 default_server;
  listen [::]:80 default_server;

  server_name taskmuncher.com www.taskmuncher.com;
  root /var/www/taskmuncher/html;
  index index.html;

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
  }
  location ~ /.well-known {
    allow all;
  }
}

Scripts to Switch Http / Https

This is scripted as it is far too easy to get wrong.

Add 2 files to the bin directory

bin/enable-http

#!/bin/sh
#
#  script to enable non-SSL
#
cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
#
echo "Remove previous symbolic link"
sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/taskmuncher
#
echo "Create symbolic links to HTTP files"
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/http/taskmuncher /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/taskmuncher
ls -la
#
echo "Restarting Pm2"
pm2 restart all
#
echo "Restarting Nginx"
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl restart nginx
#
echo "Completed"

bin/enable-https

#!/bin/sh
#
#  script to enable SSL
#
cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
#
echo "Remove previous symbolic link"
sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/taskmuncher
#
echo "Create symbolic links to HTTPS files"
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/https/taskmuncher /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/taskmuncher
ls -la
#
echo "Checking for PM2 server.js task"
pm2 list
echo "If no tasks are listed, perform the following: "
echo "cd /var/www/taskmuncher/html"
echo "pm2 start server.js"
#
echo "Restarting PM2"
pm2 restart all
#
echo "Restarting Nginx"
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl restart nginx
#
echo "Mongo Status"
sudo systemctl status mongodb
#
echo "Completed"

Set permissions

chmod 744 enable-http*

Enable Http Server Blocks

Enable Http, also restarts Nginx

enable-http

Test from browser, now using port 80:

They all should be working.

http://www.taskmuncher.com
http://taskmuncher.com
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