Preconditions

not part of this tutorial

• nginx installation
• mariadb installation
• nextcloud installation
• how to exit VIM therefor I use nano in all commands

The first thing everyone should do before connecting to the Internet is to set up a proper firewall. Since Debian 10 (Buster), the iptables framework is replaced by the nftables framework.

To make it easier to get started, here is a short guide on how to get your firewall up and running in no time.

Now that I have found a new blog software it is time to get the web server up and running. First we teach nginx a little bit about compression with gzip.

Step 1: gzip everything

By default gzip is already enabled in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf but the important part of the configuration is commented out.