This is a little web server I'm writing for fun. Gosub.com is hosted using this web server on a droplet at Digital Ocean for $6 per month. The original version was written for OpenViewtop. It was before Kestrel was available, and I was having a lot of problems getting WebSockets to work with HTTP.SYS. So I used the RFC's to write my own HTTP/WebSockets server.
This is a toy, just for fun. There is no support.
Go to Digital Ocean and setup an Ubuntu server with a static IP address. Point your domain to the server.
From Visual Studio, open the GosubWeb solution, then select the WebSite
project, and publish it with Build...Publish.... Make sure the
Target Runtime matches the server archtecture. Use lscpu on the
server, so if it says Architecture: x86_64, publish to linux-x64.
Copy the files onto the server. From Windows, you can use the command line
scp -r * root@your-domain.com:~/.. From the server, make the file
executable with chmod +x WebSite, then run it with sudo ./WebSite.
In the console, you should see a log entry at the top, like:
2022-10-23, 20:01:00.022, INFO: *** STARTING LOG *** [C:\Users\Jeremy\Documents\git\GosubWeb\WebServer\Log.cs: 43, .cctor]
You should then be able to browse to your domain and see a starter web site.
Copy your web site files into the www directory located in the executable
folder, and they will be shown.
To leave it running after you exit SSH, use this command:
nohup sudo ./WebSite &
Using Let's encrypt, you can setup the server to use HTTPS for free.
First install certbot on the server - use Google to figure out how
to do that, since it's been a while since I did it. Make sure the
server is running and serving pages to the browser, then, from the
web site root (i.e. cd www), do the following:
sudo certbot certonly --webroot -d your-domain.com
cp /etc/letsencrypt/live/your-domain.com/fullchain.pem ../fullchain.pem
cp /etc/letsencrypt/live/your-domain.com/privkey.pem ../privatekey.pem
Note that you will need to look at the output of the certbot command and
to find the exact URL to use, (e.g. it could be
/etc/letsencrypt/live/your-domain.com-0001/fullchain.pem, etc)
Restart the web server for the certificate to take effect. Look at the console output to make sure there wasn't an error setting up the HTTPS and certificate. If it is working, the browser will automatically be redirected to HTTPS when you reload the page.