NGINX serves a large part of the web, and its configuration file is shorter than it looks once you know the building blocks. In this course you install NGINX on Linux, learn how it is configured, and finish with a working web stack, with every step shown on screen so you can repeat it.
Inside the course
The course is organised into these sections: Getting Started; Additional Materials. Lectures you will find include: NGINX Important Files and Forders; NGIMX Important Commands; Mastering the NGINX Configuration File; Virtual Host Configuration in NGINX; Add files to the root directory; Configure logs and troubleshoot NGINX; Install PHP on NGINX; Install MariaDB on NGINX and LEMP stack demonstration; Working with s single VM in Vagrant. Section Overview; Importing and using base boxes in Vagrant; Managing Vagrant boxes; Working with multiple VMs in Vagrant. Section Overview; Defining and connecting to multiple virtual machines in Vagrant; Networking the multiple virtual machines in Vagrant; Building Lab Environment with Vagrant; Introduction to Git; Git: Getting installed; Git: A few important configuration settings; Git: Creating a project. The first commit; Git: Working with remote repositories; Git: Cloning a project from the remote repository; Git: Git important commands. Viewing commits’ history; Branches in Git. Creating, deleting and renaming branches; Creating an IIS website on Nano Server with PowerShell; Introduction to PowerShell Key Concepts; Intro to WMI and CIM.
The course runs about 2.7 hours in 35 lectures. It is a focused introduction to NGINX, so it does not cover load balancing, reverse proxy tuning or security hardening in depth. The Vagrant and Git sections are additional material that supports the labs.
