SERVER.md

Set up a server from scratch

Base

1. Update the apt package index

sudo apt update

2. Update packages

sudo apt upgrade

3. Install main packages

sudo apt install tmux make nginx git htop

Install Docker link →

5. Add Docker's official GPG key

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

6. Add the repository to Apt sources

echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update

7. Install the latest version of Docker Engine, containerd, and Docker Compose

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

Set up server

8. Configure NGINX

Change lines in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

types_hash_max_size 20480;
client_max_body_size 30m;

9. Restart NGINX

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Set up encryption link →

10. Install Snap

sudo apt install snapd

11. Ensure that your version of snapd is up to date

sudo snap install core
sudo snap refresh core

12. Install Let's Encrypt

sudo snap install --classic certbot

13. Prepare the Certbot command

sudo ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot

Set up GitHub

14. Create RSA SSH key

ssh-keygen

15. Copy public key to https://github.com/settings/keys

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

16. ~/.ssh/config:

Host github.com
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null

Set up project

17. Clone a project

git clone [email protected]:USER/REPO.git

(your GitHub user and repository name)

(exactly this format of the link)

18. Set up NGINX config & run certbot

certbot --nginx

19. Run project

docker compose up --build -d