LEMP Details

Full access to modify this application to suit any development project is possible upon deployment by connecting to the server via console or SSH as the root user.

The web server document root is configured as /usr/share/nginx/html/

• Insecure browser access is available via http://use.your.ip/.
• Secure access is available by default via https://use.your.ip/.
  • Upon deployment, a self-signed certificate is generated. View our instructions to bypass the HTTPS warning for self-signed SSL/TLS certificates.
  • Certificates signed by trusted commercial Certificate Authorities (CA) can be installed, or a free Let's Encrypt certificate can be generated.

Verify Web Server Functionality

To quickly verify the NGINX web server is responding, connect to the server via console or SSH and run:
# curl --head --insecure https://localhost

"HTTP/1.1 200 OK" should be visible in the output (often the first line returned).

MariaDB (MySQL)

Access the database server as the root user with the credentials saved in /root/.my.cnf:
# mysql -u root

NGINX Service Management

To stop NGINX:
# systemctl stop nginx.service

To start NGINX:
# systemctl start nginx.service

To verify the NGINX service status:
# systemctl status nginx.service

To disable NGINX starting on server boot:
# systemctl disable nginx.service

To enable NGINX starting on server boot:
# systemctl enable nginx.service