React Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

Installing and configuring nginx

To install nginx, you need to execute the following command:

sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install nginx

After you have installed nginx, then you can start the configuration:

1. We need to adjust the firewall to allow the traffic for port 80. To list the available application configurations, you need to run the following command:

sudo ufw app listAvailable applications:  Nginx Full  Nginx HTTP  Nginx HTTPS  OpenSSH

2. Nginx Full means that it will allow the traffic from port 80 (HTTP) and port 443 (HTTPS). We haven't configured any domain with SSL, so, for now, we should restrict the traffic to send the traffic just through port 80 (HTTP):

sudo ufw allow 'Nginx HTTP'Rules updatedRules updated (v6)

If you try to ...