Ubuntu initial server setup guide on digitalocean

Published Sun Jan 22 2023

Create droplet with password

To create droplet with pasword as SSH not work when first create, it can be setup later.

Create ssh key

Open terminal, navigate to folder .ssh and type ssh-key to create ssh key.

Login to server setup user account

1. adduser yourusername
2. usermod -aG sudo yourusername
3. cd /home
4. chmod 755 yourusername/ (change mod for Nginx access, otherwise you will see 404)
5. mkdir .ssh
6. cd .ssh
7. touch authorized_keys

Install Nginx 1.18

To install Nginx, check this Link