(Configuring the Nginx to point to the port where our application is running). Go to your browser and type in your Public IP, you’ll be able to see the Nginx welcome page.

To start Nginx, type $ sudo service nginx start Now run the following command to install Nginx $ sudo yum install nginx To add NGINX yum repository, create a file with the following command $ sudo vim /etc//nginx.repoĪnd then copy and paste the following configuration into that and save it name=nginx repo baseurl=$basearch/ gpgcheck=0 enabled=1 To follow along with the installation in CentOS, go to the link: It will return the following information: NAME=”Amazon Linux” VERSION=”2' ID=”amzn” ID_LIKE=” centos rhel fedora” VERSION_ID=”2' PRETTY_NAME=”Amazon Linux 2' ANSI_COLOR=”0 33' CPE_NAME=”cpe:2.3:o:amazon:amazon_linux:2' HOME_URL=” ' To verify this, type the following command after you connect to your instance from a CLI.

The CentOS way: Since Amazon Linux 2 is just like CentOS, we can follow the steps to get Nginx installed on our EC2 instance.

Use the following command to install Nginx: $ sudo amazon-linux-extras install rust1 To know more about Amazon Linux Extras follow this link. Īfter a lot of googling and a with the help of one of my colleagues ( Subham Kumar Sahu), I found 2 ways to do this.

Configuring Nginx: Even after installing Nginx, the right way, I couldn’t find the path to sites-enabled or sites-available.

Installing Nginx: Couldn’t just install Nginx directly using yum.

There were mainly 2 issues I encountered: For learning purposes, I was trying it out using Linux 2 AMI.

Earlier I had experience in setting up and deploying a node app using Ubuntu AMI.

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