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git clone https://github.com/fhsinchy/nginx-handbook-projects.git /srv/nginx-handbook-projects # Cloning into '/srv/nginx-handbook-projects'... # remote: Enumerating objects: 178, done. # remote: Counting objects: 100% (178/178), done. # remote: Compressing objects: 100% (130/130), done. # remote: Total 178 (delta 30), reused 168 (delta 25), pack-reused 0 # Receiving objects: 100% (178/178), 153.73 KiB | 10.25 MiB/s, done. # Resolving deltas: 100% (30/30), done.
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NGINX should be (at least it does on Ubuntu) registered as a systemd service and should start automatically.
In this section, I'll use an open-source HTTP client named Nghttp2 for testing the server.