Adding a static website

Mike Tango Bravo · Updated 2023-07-19

This section describes the steps for adding websites, following these references:

https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/web/nginx-multisite/

https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/security/generating_ssl_keys_lets_encrypt/

Create a directory for the website HTML content.
mkdir -p /usr/share/nginx/html/newsite.com

Add default index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Site 1</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Helo vino</h1>
</body>
</html>

Change to /etc/nginx

Create sites-available and sites-enabled

mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-available

Add sites-enabled support, by adding this line after (include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;)
```
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf;
```

Comment out the default server section

#server {
#    listen       80;
#    listen       [::]:80;
#    server_name  _;
#    root         /usr/share/nginx/www/html;
#
#    # Load configuration files for the default server block.
#    include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;
#
#    error_page 404 /404.html;
#    location = /404.html {
#    }
#
#    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
#    location = /50x.html {
#    }
#}

Restart the webserver
```
systemctl restart nginx
```

Create the website configuration file (sites-available/newsite.com.conf)

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    # virtual server name i.e. domain name #
    server_name site1.server.test;

    # document root #
    root        /usr/share/nginx/test.server.site1/html;

    # log files
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log;
    error_log   /var/log/nginx/error.log;

    # Directives to send expires headers and turn off 404 error logging. #
    location ~* ^.+\.(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|rss|atom|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ {
        access_log off; log_not_found off; expires max;
    }
}

Activate the site

cd sites-enabled
ln -s ../sites-available/martianwinefederation.org.conf

Test everything and restart

[sites-enabled]$ sudo nginx -t
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

[sites-enabled]$ sudo systemctl restart nginx

Add an SSL certificate with certbot

sudo certbot --nginx --agree-tos --redirect --hsts --staple-ocsp --email mtb@costaflores.com -d ferment.openvino.org

Remove the section that causes loops

    #if ($host = ferment.openvino.org) {
     #   return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    #} # managed by Certbot