Nginx production deployment guide (summary)

A guide in this repository, Nginx/guides/nginx-production-deployment/README.md, for running Nginx alone on one Ubuntu 24.04 LTS VM: static files, a reverse proxy to an application on 127.0.0.1:3000, and HTTPS through Certbot webroot. It calls itself a deployable baseline, not evidence that any server was deployed.¹

Takeaways

• Nginx terminates HTTPS and splits requests between static files and a loopback-only application. See Reverse proxy gateway.
• Every change is backed up, tested with nginx -t, and applied with a graceful reload. See Safe change procedure.
• Troubleshooting goes layer by layer from a symptom table.¹ See Nginx production deployment.

Footnotes

1. Nginx Production Deployment and Operations for Beginners, original on GitHub ↩ ↩²