Useful Documentation

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This is not full documentation but in here I explain most useful things that you cant see in the code, and it's necessary.

I hope it will be useful for you.

Deploy Go on linux server

For deploy go on linux server do these steps:

1. Build your app with necessary environments:

env GOOS=linux CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -o blog ./cmd/api

1. Create a systemd job file:

touch /etc/systemd/system/blog.service

1. Copy these code into blog.service file:

Description= instance to serve blog api
After=network.target

[Service]
Environment="MODE=production"
User=root
Group=www-data
ExecStart=<Path of your builded go file>
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-users.target

NOTE: As you can see this file created with production mode environment

4. Start service:

sudo systemctl start blog

5. Check service status:

sudo systemctl enable blog

6. Create blog config for nginx:

touch /etc/nginx/sites-available/blog

7. Copy these codes into blog config file:

server {
    server_name .com;

    location / {
        proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
        proxy_pass http://localhost:<Port Number>;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }

    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
}

9. Create soft link for sites-enables:

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/blog /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

10. Restart nginx:

sudo systemctl restart nginx