ubuntu 20.10 nginx

1.Install

apt install nginx

2.default localtion of nginx html

Default page is placed in /var/www/html/ location. You can place your static pages here, or use virtual host and place it other location.
Virtual host is a method of hosting multiple domain names on the same server.

3. Setting up virtual host

To set up virtual host, we need to create file in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ directory.

For this tutorial, we will make our site available on 81 port, not the standard 80 port. You can change it if you would like to.

cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
sudo “${EDITOR:-vi}” tutorial

server {
       listen 81;
       listen [::]:81;

       server_name example.ubuntu.com;

       root /var/www/tutorial;
       index index.html;

       location / {
               try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
       }
}

root is a directory where we have placed our .html file. index is used to specify file available when visiting root directory of site. server_name can be anything you want, because you aren’t pointing it to any real domain by now.

sudo service nginx restart