Hello I am new to cloud
Hi there I’m Murshid from Sri Lanka I found linode really interesting to start my site with I’m basically a Wordpress developer.
I need to configure my site to ngnix from Apache I am not a geek hence please help me to convert Apache to ngnix could you state me the steps of how to get this done successfully I found some tutorials on the net like digitalocean but after following them the Wordpress site which was working on Apache stopped working and i was like where I am again I am not a tech savy guy let me know if there is a easy way to convert Apache to ngnix im the not using a Wordpress site and i deleted my linode since the site wasn’t working
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jyoo
Linode Staff
You'll likely need to accomplish this by setting up a new Nginx installation as if you were starting from scratch, then moving your website content over to your Nginx website directories. If you're installing Nginx on the same Linode as Apache, you will also want to ensure that Apache is no longer running after you move your site's content over. This will help to prevent configuration conflicts such as Apache trying to serve your website when Nginx should be serving it.
The exact steps for accomplishing this will depend on what Linux distro you're using, but our Nginx guides can be found here:
To copy the website files, you can use cp /path/to/file /path/to/nginx/directory, where /path/to/file is the filepath for the file or directory you're moving, and /path/to/nginx/directory is the directory to which you're moving the files. Nginx's configuration structure is different than Apache's, so you'll need to make sure you're putting the files where Nginx will be able to find them as per the installation and configuration instructions for your distro.
Hello thanks for the reply installing ngnix is understandable yes I’m trying to get this done on my current linode which is running Apache Wordpress under Debian operating system
I’m not clearly
Understanding the moving part if you could provide me a step by step basic information of achieving this furthermore i have no idea of what ngnix is sir but I am willing to try it by any chance !
Many thanks and stay safe from corona