FORGOR Website

Setup

Initial

• Clone into git repo
• Move out of root sudo mv /root/projects/<git-folder> /var/www/
• Ensure permissions

  sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/<git-folder>
  sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/<git-folder>
  

Reverse Proxy

NGINX Setup

• Have domain
• Set A address as the VPS's IP address
• Wait 15 min
• Create an nginx config file with sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/<name> and replace with:

  server {
      server_name <name>.xyz www.<name>.xyz;
  
      root /var/www/<git-folder>;
      index index.html
  
      location / {
          rewrite ^/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ /$1.html break;
          try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/ =404
      }
  }
  

• Link files with sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/<name> /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
• Validate config with sudo nginx -t
• Reload with sudo systemctl reload nginx

HTTPS Setup

• Run this sudo certbot --nginx -d <name>.xyz -d www.<name>.xyz
• Check for cron job for auto reneew SSL cert with sudo certbot renew --dry-run

To-Do

• Add images