Nginx

Zielsetzung

Nginx ist ein Webserver. Er beantwortet HTTP und HTTPS-Anforderungen an den Server.

Dazu benutzt er Subsysteme, die die eigentlichen Applikationen enthalten: PHP, CGI...

Installation

apt-get install nginx-full
# oder 
apt-get install nginx

Konfiguration

cat <<EOS > /etc/nginx/snippets/letsencrypt.conf
location ^~ /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {
    default_type "text/plain";
    root /home/www/letsencrypt;
}
# Hide /acme-challenge subdirectory and return 404 on all requests.
# It is somewhat more secure than letting Nginx return 403.
# Ending slash is important!
location = /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {
    return 404;
}
EOS
if [ ! -e /srv/www ]; then
  mkdir -p /home/www
  ln -s ../home/www /srv/www
fi
mkdir -p /srv/www/letsencrypt/.well-known/acme-challenge
echo "Hi" >/srv/www/letsencrypt/.well-known/acme-challenge/hi.txt
echo "Hi" >/srv/www/letsencrypt/.well-known/hi.txt
chown -R www-data:www-data /srv/www/letsencrypt