1.1-short-term-roadmap.md

Path to setting up a simple website

Our current goal

For these upcoming videos, let's set a goal. Our goal is to setup a simple website

To be able to achieve that, we need to be familiar with the following:

1. We need a Linux Virtual Server to host our website
   • Virtualization
   • What and why of Linux
   • Installing a Linux server on virtual machine
2. Access the server so that we can do our thing
   • Shell
   • SSH
3. We need to be able to navigate the server
   • cd, ls, pushd, popd etc
   • Filesystem hierarchy of Linux
4. We need to be able to read, create and modify files
   • mkdir, cat, echo etc
   • Text editors - vim
5. Create a user to run our webserver as
   • User management in Linux
   • Permissions
6. Installing our webserver
   • Webservers
   • Package management
7. Starting our webserver
   • Managing services using systemctl
8. Checking if our website works
   • Process management (ps, kill etc)
   • Working with curl, netstat, netcat
9. Configuring our webserver for our liking
   • VirtualHost, Host header
   • Configuring Nginx
   • Checking log files using tail, less
   • Finding patterns using grep