Hi!.
In today's article, I will be walking through the steps to install and configure Nginx on Amazon EC2 using the Ubuntu Server. This is the first task of my HNG DevOps Internship and I am to serve a custom HTML page that shows my name and Slack username.

Setting Up Ubuntu On Amazon EC2.

  • The first step is to create an EC2 instance using the Ubuntu AMI.
  • Instance Type: An instance type specifies the hardware to be used for the instance. I used the t2 micro instance type since it is free tier eligible.
  • Security Group: A security group is a set of firewall rules that control the traffic for my instance.
  • Key Pair: To securely connect to my instance.

After creating The EC2 Instance and it is up and running, I am able connect to the EC2 Instance and start the Nginx installation process.

To install Nginx, I used these commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx -y 
sudo systemctl start nginx 
sudo systemctl enable nginx

After enabling nginx, I added my name and Slack username to the HTML file using the vi editor.

sudo vi /var/www/html/index.html

After saving the HTML file, I had to reboot Nginx so that I could get the new changes with these commands:

sudo systemctl restart nginx
sudo systemctl status nginx

To verify that the custom HTML Page has been rendered on my browser, I navigated to the IPv4 address generated by AWS for the instance in my web browser.

Challenges

I was opening the IP address link directly from AWS and by default it was an HTTPS address and I kept having the "CONNECTION_REFUSED" error on my browser. I later discovered that Nginx default config is HTTP only and i had to force my browser to use HTTP.

How this task contributes to my learning and professional goals.
Working on this task has helped me enhance my troubleshooting skills. in a bid to understand the issue with the connection refused error on my browser, I was able to learn more about networking.

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