How to install Nginx on Oracle VPS? - Tri Nguyen

Tri Nguyen

Intro

In this post I would like to document how I install nginx and open the ports on an Oracle VPS. If you’re interested in creating a free Oracle VPS, you can follow the instructions in this post How to create a free Oracle VPS with Python script (Out of capacity)?

Steps

Go to Virtual Cloud Networks, select the VCN which is used for the VM you want to install Nginx there.

Virtual Cloud Networks

Select Security List on the Resources menu.

Virtual Cloud Networks

Select the Security List you want to edit.

Virtual Cloud Networks

Click Add Ingress Rules then add new rule for port 80 and 443.

Virtual Cloud Networks

Now, login to your VPS over SSH and execute the following commands to open port 80 in iptables.
Install firewalld.

sudo apt-get install firewalld
sudo systemctl enable firewalld
sudo systemctl start firewalld

Open port 80.

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=80/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Then verify if the port 80 is really open.

sudo firewall-cmd --list-all

public
  target: default
  icmp-block-inversion: no
  interfaces:
  sources:
  services: dhcpv6-client ssh
  ports: 80/tcp
  protocols:
  masquerade: no
  forward-ports:
  source-ports:
  icmp-blocks:
  rich rules:

Now you can install Nginx.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx

Nginx

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