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Nginx Config Files for Node API

My servers are setup using Digital Ocean using These Instructions.

Then, for the API setup for Nginx, I use this setup for nginx.

Fix Let's Encrypt Failing Certificates

For some reason, sometimes Let's Encrypt just has a hard time renewing SSL certificates and you might need to recreate them. Here is the process I take to get things back up and running fairly quickly with Digital Ocean Nginx Servers.

Check Issues

Change to Let's Encrypt directory:

Long Term Prep

By no means am I an expert on this stuff, but I have been doing basic research on this from year to year and have been trying to keep up with "best practices". I started this "prepper" stuff back in St. Louis, MO as we lived on a fault line and we were well past due for a major earthquake ( by 100+ years actually ). So I felt kind of stupid not being ready if it was a pretty good bet that at some point in my life, I was going to meet a natural disaster.

Something important to note, is that I did not just drop a bunch of money on this all at once. I just slowly accumulated things over the past 6-8 years. I figured if I budgeted about max of $250 a year on preparation stuff, I would only need to do that for a few years before I could have a pretty decent nest egg.

My primary focus was based purely on how I live my life, which is that I mainly work from home with my wife, and when I am traveling, it's usually by car, and I'm usually within 30 miles from home.

Get Home Bag (GHB)

Multiple NPM Accounts on Single Machine

Create Custom NPM Config

If you do not already have a local ~/.npmrc file, you need to create one.

Open a terminal window
Run npm login

DigitialOcean Nginx Website Setup ( Virtual Hosts )

These are the configuration files for an Ubuntu 20.04 Droplet on Ubuntu. The end results is a custom Nginx Server with HTTP2 & SSL Certificates for each website on a droplet.

	\n
	============= HOST: ==========\n
	\n
	local_ip: %{local_ip}\n
	local_port: %{local_port}\n
	remote_ip: %{remote_ip}\n
	remote_port: %{remote_port}\n
	\n
	======= CONNECTION: ==========\n
	\n