Nginx Deep Dive: Full-Stack Deployment on AWS EC2

Overview

This project demonstrates the deployment of a full-stack notes application on an AWS EC2 instance. The process involves:

• Installing and configuring Nginx.
• Serving a static index.html file.
• Cloning and containerizing a full-stack notes application.
• Running the application using Docker.
• Configuring Nginx as a reverse proxy to route traffic to the application.

Upgrading our server and installing nginx

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install nginx
systemctl status nginx

To see what’s inside Nginx use this:

cd /etc/nginx/
ls

<aside> 💡

The main folders on which Nginx operates is

1. sites-enabled
2. sites-available
3. nginx.conf </aside>

Now, let’s create a index.html file in this folder and let’s see if nginx can serve our index.html file

cd /var/www/html/

sudo vim index.html