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How to setup Nginx on Debian

First of all you would need to "ssh" to you're server:

ssh user@127.0.0.1

After successfully loged in on you're server:

sudo apt install nginx

Start Nginx:

sudo systemctl start nginx

Enable to start at reboot:

sudo systemctl enable nginx

Check Nginx status: 

systemctl status nginx

Output should be similar to: 

init@init ~ %25 systemctl status nginx

● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server

     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset:>

     Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-10-29 14:02:24 CEST; 1min 22s ago

       Docs: man:nginx(8)

    Process: 3813 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_proce>

    Process: 3815 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on; (c>

   Main PID: 3816 (nginx)

      Tasks: 3 (limit: 2201)

     Memory: 6.2M

        CPU: 49ms

     CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service

             ├─3816 "nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master>

             ├─3817 "nginx: worker process" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "">

             └─3818 "nginx: worker process" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "">

init@init ~ %25

You're default web root path is:

cd /var/www/html/

ls

Output:

init@init /var/www/html %25 ls

index.nginx-debian.html

init@init /var/www/html %25

Curl you're server IP address should give you the output of "Welcome to nginx."

curl 127.0.0.1

Output >

init@init /var/www/html %25 curl 127.0.0.1

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Welcome to nginx!</title>

<style>

    body {

        width: 35em;

        margin: 0 auto;

        font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;

    }

</style>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Welcome to nginx!</h1>

<p>If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and

working. Further configuration is required.</p>



<p>For online documentation and support please refer to

<a href="http://nginx.org/">nginx.org</a>.<br/>

Commercial support is available at

<a href="http://nginx.com/">nginx.com</a>.</p>



<p><em>Thank you for using nginx.</em></p>

</body>

</html>

init@init /var/www/html %25

Edit or setup specific domain names on Nginx:

cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Copy the default

cp default example.domain

You will find there a helpful documentacion how to do that as example:

vim example.domain

server {

       listen 80;

       listen [::]:80;



       server_name example.domain;



       root /var/www/example.domain;

       index index.html;



       location / {

               try_files $uri $uri/ =404;

       }

}