DevOps Classroom notes 02/Feb/2026

Setup a Website in Nginx

• We would need a linux server and webserver and some website
  
• Linux Servers:
  • Ubuntu 24.04
• WebServer:
  • Nginx
• Website:
  • Refer Here

Steps:

• Create a linux vm (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Installing nginx You are a linux expert, Give me step by step commands to install nginx on ubuntu 24.04

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx -y
sudo systemctl status nginx.service

• In nginx and apache the folder where we can host websites is /var/www/html
• Now download the website

sudo apt install unzip
cd /tmp
wget https://templatemo.com/tm-zip-files-2020/templatemo_589_lugx_gaming.zip
cd templatemo_589_lugx_gaming/
sudo cp --recursive . /var/www/html/

• Navigate to http://

Package Managers

• In Linux to install softwares we have folliwng ways
  • code + make
  • packages (.deb, .rpm)
    • deb dpkg -i <package>.deb
    • rpm rpm -ivh <package>.rpm
  • Package Managers
    • apt (Debian)
    • dnf (yum) (Redhat)
    • snap
• APT:
  • APT is a package manager used in debian based distributions
  • apt will have package definitions that needs to be up to date apt update
  • To install software apt install <package-name>
• Exericse: Try installing the same website using apache server on redhat