NGINX setup tool

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Project Overview

Automated way to setup and configure NGINX Web server on Linux VMWare machine without manual steps.
✅ check if Nginx is installed. If not - install
✅ setup user-directories
✅ setup virtual host domain with name gived by promt
✅ setup authentication
✅ setup authentication with PAM
✅ setup CGI scripting ability
✅ Interactive and CLI input arguments are supported
✅ The tool runs under the root credentials, if not root - sudo is used
✅ Correct exit status is provided. 0 - sucess, else - fails.

📁 Folder Structure

• 📁 nginx_setup/ Root directory
  • 📄 README Project overview, usage, installation instructions
  • 📄 LICENSE Open-source license
  • 📄 TASK Task description
  • 📄 CONTRIBUTORS
  • 📄 webserver_setup Main script for Nginx setup (bash)

Getting Started

Pre-Requisites:

Ensure that your system meets the following requirements:

• Bash, git and curl installed
• Linux based system

Cloning the Repository:

• How to clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/baruchgu/nginx_setup.git
cd nginx_setup

Running the Setup:

• Steps to run the setup tool:

chmod +x webserver_setup.sh
./webserver_setup.sh

Dependecies

During the run the tool installs the following packages
✅ nginx
✅ apache2-utils
✅ nginx-extras
✅ libpam0g-dev
✅ libpam-modules
✅ fcgiwrap
✅ spawn-fcgi

Usage and Examples:

Help:

Print the usage menu and exit

./webserver_setup.sh -h  

Output:

NGINX Web server setup tool:
	Options:
	i) Install NGINX server 
	v) Configure Virtual Hostings
	u) Configure the user-dir
	a) Setup server authentication
	p) Setup server authentication with PAM
	s) Setup CGI scripting
	q) quit

CLI arguments:

./webserver_setup.sh -i  #Install NGINX server
./webserver_setup.sh -v  #Configure Virtual Hostings
./webserver_setup.sh -u  #Configure the user-dir
./webserver_setup.sh -a  #Setup server authentication
./webserver_setup.sh -p  #Setup server authentication with PAM
./webserver_setup.sh -s  #Setup CGI scripting

License

License

🙇 Credit

Many of code and ideas were copied from README files of Tal in his GitHub projects. Thanks 👍