NGINX

What is NGINX?

Now that we have the back-end taken care of, we have to have something that can serve up the static files of the front-end application. NGINX is a highly efficient web server that is both very configurable and easy to implement.

Installing NGINX

Unlike Gunicorn, NGINX is not PIP installable and needs to be installed as a standalone application on your computer. The installation of Nginx will depend on what platform we are running it on and what package manager is required, but for a Linux distribution that uses APT, we can install it with this:

apt-get update

apt-get install nginx

If we have a Linux distribution that uses Yum for package management, we can use this:

yum update

yum install nginx

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