Nginx and Certbot set up for accessing your home server applications.

Installing Nginx and then encrypting it’s traffic with Certbot .

Install NginX

apt install nginx

Start NginX

systemctl start nginx

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Edit the Niginx default file

nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;

server_name (YOURDOMAINNAME);

location / {
proxy_pass http://(IPADDRESSYOUWANTTOACCESS:ANDPORT);
}
}
#
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;

server_name (YOURDOMAINNAME);

location / {
proxy_pass http://(IPADDRESSYOUWANTTOACCESS:ANDPORT);
}
}
#
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;

server_name (SUBDOMAINYOURDOMAINNAME);

location / {
proxy_pass http://(IPADDRESSYOUWANTTOACCESS:ANDPORT);
}
}

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Restart NginX

systemctl restart nginx.service

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Install Cerbot

apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx

Configure certbot with the domain name

certbot –nginx -d (YOURDOMAINNAME)