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zwitterion-production

Installation

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx

Use

Development Use

Start the server: npm start Stop the server: npm run stop

Production Use

Make sure the machine that you deploy to has NGINX installed.

Dokku

If you are using Dokku, do the following:

//The following is for HTTPS
//find your public key and private key, and transform them into the format that dokku needs
cat [public-key].pem > server.crt
cat [private-key].pem > server.key
dokku certs:add [app-name] server.crt server.key

Custom

sudo apt-get update //make sure packages are up to date
sudo apt-get upgrade // not sure exactly what this does, look into it
sudo apt-get install nginx

//What does the -y option on the apt-get command do?

NGINX https config:

# redirect all http GET traffic to https
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name solutiamaxima.com www.solutiamaxima.com;
    return 301 https://solutiamaxima.com$request_uri;
}

server {
  listen 443 ssl;
  server_name solutiamaxima.com www.solutiamaxima.com;
  root /home/ubuntu/test-nginx;
  ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/solutiamaxima.com/fullchain.pem;
  ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/solutiamaxima.com/privkey.pem;
}

How to get a Let's Encrypt certificate:

sudo apt-get install letsencrypt
sudo letsencrypt certonly --standalone -d solutiamaxima.com -d www.solutiamaxima.com
//now set up nginx to point to the certificate location...