Installing Web Server And Set It Up With NGINX In Debian 9 Stretch

I would like to share to you how to Installing web server with NGINX in debian 9. So here is how :

1. Let's consider that linux are already installed in your server. Now, we need to install nginx by typing :
   
   apt-get install nginx
2. Wait until it's done. To make sure installation has completed, type in :
   
   service nginx status

or

systemctl status nginx
   
   if it shown like this, then it's complete and we now may begin to next step
   
   
3. After that, open nginx directory by typing
   
   cd /etc/nginx
   
   To show what's inside, type :
   
   ls
   
   Now you see there is two folder name sites-enabled and sites-available. The difference between the two is, sites-available keep your configuration (called server block) and not running it. sites-enabled is the opposite. it keeps and run your server block at the same time. When we are accessing a web that using nginx, what shown on our screen is the work of server block that saved in sites-enabled, not in sites-available. That's the difference.
4. After that, let's create one server block with the name yoursite.com by typing :
   
   nano yoursite.com
   
   you can change it to your website name, but in this tutorial let's use it as example.
5. Copy-paste these settings below to that config file, and replace some information as you needed. And please read bold text carefully. It's a guide.
   
   server {
#Remove default_server if you wish to create multiple website
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;

# This is where your website's file is stored. Point your directory here
root /your html directory/your html directory/;

# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.php index.html index.htm;

# Replace example.com with your website domain address
server_name example.com;

location / {

# This command will first attempt to serve request as file, then as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}

# pass PHP scripts to FastCGI server
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;

#With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
}

# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
#location ~ /\.ht {
# deny all;
#}
}
   
   Remember, what i means by root /your_html_directory/ is a place that holds your website's template and engines. You must point it.
6. Save it, and restart nginx by typing one of these. this will restart NGINX services :
   
   systemctl restart nginx
or
service nginx restart

Now, try to access your website locally by typing your desired domain.

If it works, congratulations.

Some tip : if you willing to add multiple domain in one server, it's recommended that you can use the same configuration but make a new files of server block, and make sure that default_server is removed so client can access your multiple website, not only one.

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