Web Server: Nginx

# Debian/Ubuntu
apt update && apt install nginx -y

# CentOS/AlmaLinux
dnf install nginx -y

systemctl start nginx
systemctl enable nginx
systemctl status nginx

ufw allow http
ufw allow https

nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    server_name example.com www.example.com;
    root /var/www/example.com;
    index index.html index.php;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/example.com.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/example.com.error.log;

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

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

mkdir -p /var/www/example.com
echo "<h1>It works!</h1>" > /var/www/example.com/index.html
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/example.com

# Verify configuration syntax
nginx -t

# Reload without downtime
systemctl reload nginx

# Full restart
systemctl restart nginx

# See error logs in real time
tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log

# See access logs in real time
tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log

# See all active sites
ls -la /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/example.com;
    index index.php index.html;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}