Nginx

First you need to install Nginx in the server. I performed this in a Ubuntu server and following commands need to be altered according to the OS if you are not a Ubuntu user. This setup has two main parts. First we will install Nginx and then we will move towards the basic authentication setup for DBfit with Nginx.

Setting up Nginx (extremely straightforward)

sudo apt-get install nginx

sudo service nginx start

This should install Nginx in the Ubuntu machine. But unlucky I got the following error [If you got it installed and started correctly without any errors, you can skip this section]

Starting nginx: nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] still could not bind()

This happened due to the default file in the sites-available folder. You can simply remove the default file symbolic link in the sites-enabled folder and give another start to the nginx. This time it started without any issue.

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