Restore Access to Website: Troubleshoot and Revive Nginx Services

Introduction

In this project, you will learn how to restore access to a website that has been accidentally broken. The website uses Nginx services, which are currently unable to start. Your task is to get the Nginx service running again so that the website can be accessed.

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🎯 Tasks

In this project, you will learn:

How to start the Nginx service on a server
How to verify that the Nginx service is running correctly

🏆 Achievements

After completing this project, you will be able to:

Troubleshoot and restore Nginx services on a server
Ensure that a website is accessible by verifying the Nginx service is running

Skills Graph

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Start the Nginx Service

In this step, you will learn how to start the Nginx service on the server. Follow the steps below to complete this step:

Open a terminal on the server.
Run the following command to start the Nginx service:

sudo service nginx start

This command will start the Nginx service on the server.

Verify the Nginx Service

In this step, you will learn how to verify that the Nginx service is running correctly. Follow the steps below to complete this step:

To verify that you successfully restored nginx, you can open a command line and run:

firefox http://localhost

If you see the Nginx default homepage, it means that you have successfully restored access to the website.

Summary

Congratulations! You have completed this project. You can practice more labs in LabEx to improve your skills.

Restore Access to Website