Setup subdomain website on Amazon Lightsail NGINX

PART 2 of the creating website NGINX Amazon guide

• Step 1: add subdomain A record to your Amazon DNS Zone. For more information, see DNS in Amazon Lightsail.
  
  Select A record type the subdomain and select the static IP attached to your server
  
• Step 2: Connect to your Lightsail instance with the browser-based SSH terminal. Simple and secure.
  
• Step 3: Type commands in the terminal.
  sudo mkdir /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp
  where newapp is the folder where the new website will run

  sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp
  sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp

• Step 4: Create a conf directory.

  sudo mkdir /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf
  sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf
  sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf

• Step 5: Create htdocs directory.

  sudo mkdir /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/htdocs
  sudo chown -R bitnami:daemon /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/htdocs
  sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/htdocs

• Step 6: in the /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf folder you can create a file nginx-app.conf

  sudo touch /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf/nginx-app.conf
  sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf/nginx-app.conf
  sudo chmod -R 644 /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf/nginx-app.conf

• Step 7: in the /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf folder you can create a file nginx-vhosts.conf

  sudo touch /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf/nginx-vhosts.conf
  sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf/nginx-vhosts.conf
  sudo chmod -R 644 /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf/nginx-vhosts.conf

• Step 8: add content to the /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf/nginx-vhosts.conf file.
  In the terminal

  sudo vim /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf/nginx-vhosts.conf

  pres i and add text, pres ESC and type :wq! to save file

  server {
      listen    80;
      root   "/opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/htdocs";
      server_name  subdomain.example.com;
      include "/opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf/nginx-app.conf";
  }
  
  server {
      listen    443 ssl;
      root   "/opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/htdocs";
      server_name  subdomain.example.com;
  
      #ssl_certificate      "/opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/certs/server.crt";
      #ssl_certificate_key  "/opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/certs/server.key";
      
         #ssl_session_cache    shared:SSL:1m;
         #ssl_session_timeout  5m;
  
      #ssl_ciphers  HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
      #ssl_prefer_server_ciphers  on;
  
      include "/opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf/nginx-app.conf";
  }
  

• Step 9: add content to the /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf/nginx-app.conf file.
  In the terminal

  sudo vim /opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf/nginx-app.conf

  pres i and add text, press ESC and type :wq! to save file

  index index.php index.html index.htm;
  #allow 127.0.0.1;
  #deny all;
  
  
  # Deny all attempts to access hidden files such as .htaccess or .htpasswd.
  location ~ /\. {
      deny all;
  }
  
  location ~ \.php$ {
      fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
      fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/opt/bitnami/php/var/run/www.sock;
      fastcgi_index index.php;
      fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
      include fastcgi_params;
  }
  
  

• Step 10: add line to the bottom of file /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/bitnami/bitnami-apps-vhosts.conf
  In the terminal

  sudo vim /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/bitnami/bitnami-apps-vhosts.conf

  pres i and add text, pres ESC and type :wq! to save file

  include "/opt/bitnami/apps/newapp/conf/nginx-vhosts.conf";
  

• Step 11: Restart the server
  In the terminal

  sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart