Self hosting a webserver on a Raspberry Pi

I have a Raspberry Pi Model B V1.2, and I wanted to transform it into a server. The foundation provides some software to flash an OS on the micro SD card, based on your distribution.

• I’ve installed RaspberryPi OS
• Once connected, I’ve turn on SSH in “interfaces”, then reboot.
• You should now be able to access the raspberry pi via ssh using the username and password you’ve defined for the first login.
• I’ve installed nginx, the config is pretty basic:

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server;

        root /var/www/html/brain;

        index index.html;
        error_page 404 /404.html;
        server_name test.com;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/ =404;
        }
}

• I had to request a static IP from my internet provider
• I set a static IP address for my server inside my router config

WARNING

I could not reach my local server from macOS. You have to give access to your browsers to your local network: System Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network > enable your browsers and command line here

• I went to my domain name provider to add a DNS record to bind my domain name on my local server
• Following this tuto for installing Let’s Encrypt. It was not working in the beginning because I had a problem with my DNS cache that wasn’t refreshing.
• Finally I added automation for releasing my second brain with Ansible and a bash script