Set Up NGINX¶
If you don’t want HTTPS (for communications between the external world and your node), then you can skip all the NGINX steps on this page.
Note: This simple deployment template uses NGINX for more than just HTTPS. For example, it also does basic rate limiting.
Configure & Reload NGINX¶
Get an SSL certificate for your node’s subdomain (such as bnode.example.com
).
Copy the SSL private key into
/etc/nginx/ssl/cert.key
Create a “PEM file” (text file) by concatenating your SSL certificate with all intermediate certificates (in that order, with the intermediate certs last).
Copy that PEM file into
/etc/nginx/ssl/cert.pem
In the bigchaindb/bigchaindb repository on GitHub, find the file
nginx/nginx.conf
and copy its contents to/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
on your machine (i.e. replace the existing file there).Edit that file (
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
): replace the two instances of the stringexample.testnet2.com
with your chosen subdomain (such asbnode.example.com
).Reload NGINX by doing:
sudo service nginx reload