Web servers

5 guides

• Nginx: install and your first siteIn this article you'll install Nginx on your ForestsNet Cloud VPS, enable it as a systemd service, publish a simple static site behind its own server block (vhost), and open the…
• Apache: install and virtual hostsIn this article you'll install the Apache web server on your ForestsNet Cloud VPS, set up a virtual host (VirtualHost) for a site, check the configuration, and open the necessary…
• Caddy: automatic HTTPSCaddy is a web server that obtains and renews Let's Encrypt TLS certificates by itself — no certbot, no manual cron jobs. In this article you'll install Caddy on your ForestsNet…
• Free SSL with Let's Encrypt (certbot)Let's Encrypt issues trusted TLS certificates for free, and the certbot client does the rest: it proves you control the domain, obtains the certificate, turns on HTTPS in nginx or…
• The LEMP and LAMP web stacksLEMP and LAMP are the two most common web stacks for PHP sites: a web server, a database, and PHP working together — the foundation under almost any PHP application, from custom…