Hi, this is my first tutorial on setting up a Web server on Debian. I think it will be useful for someone because the free VPS you got runs Debian. With 128MB RAM, I think it would be better if you install Nginx for webserver, PHP for generating dynamic page and MySQL for database management. I choose Nginx because it is lighter and have better performance than Apache.
This tutorial explains how to install and configure Nginx
1. Install Nginx
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sudo apt-get install nginx
sudo service nginx start
Now if you point your browser to your IP address, it should confirm that nginx was successfully installed on your VPS.
2. Configure Nginx
With virtual host, you can host many site on 1 VPS. Here is how to configure it.
Open the default virtual host to edit. You can use many free tool to edit text in linux such as vi/vim/emacs... With the limited resource VPS, I recommend "nano".
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sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
In this configuration file, you can config many virtual hosts as you want. A correct configured virtual host look like this:
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location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/www;
}
Now you can save and exit nano by press Ctr + X, it will ask you to save the edited file, save it.
Restart Nginx by:
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sudo service nginx restart
and now you can browse to your web server using your domain name!
3, Install PHP
After installing Nginx as the post above, if you want to create dynamic web with VPS, here is the tutorial to help you install PHP.
Initial installation is simple with the apt-get command.
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sudo apt-get install php5-fpm
And configure php to work with Nginx. Open
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sudo nano /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
Find the line:
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Find the line, listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
change it to:
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listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock
Save and Exit.
Change configuration of Nginx. Add these following lines to each virtual host
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# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
Restart php-fpm:
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sudo service php5-fpm restart
You are done!. You can test your PHP by creating a simple file like this
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<?php
phpinfo();
?>
in
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/usr/share/nginx/www/info.php
Thanks
Rizwan
How to setup an HTTP web server on a VPS running Debian
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