nginx-static-deployment-solution.md

Solution: Deploy a static site with nginx

Once you have cloned the static clock repository as instructed, you should create the /etc/nginx/sites-available/clock file on your server and it should look something this:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name jde.archidep.ch;
  root /home/jde/static-clock-website;
  index index.html;

  # Cache images, icons, video, audio, HTC, etc.
  location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc)$ {
    access_log off;
    add_header Cache-Control "max-age=2592000";
  }
}

💎 Replace jde with your subdomain and jde with your Unix username.

You must enable that configuration by creating the appropriate link:

$> sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/clock /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/clock

You must then ask nginx to reload its configuration:

$> sudo nginx -t
$> sudo nginx -s reload