Next Steps

We learned a lot about web servers:

• Installing
• Controlling with systemctl
• Configuring as a static web server
• Configuring as a reverse proxy to an application server

We did all of this for two different web servers: NGINX and Caddy.

There are many more web servers, and there are additional things you can do with web servers.

Resources

A great place to learn more would be to read through the documentation for both of the web servers introduced in this class.

• General Documentation
  • Caddy Documentation Homepage
  • NGINX Documentation Homepage

Additionally the next three concepts related to web servers we recommend you to start researching are:

• Load Balancing
  • Caddy Documentation: Load Balancing
  • NGINX Documentation: Load Balancing
• Enabling HTTPS
  • Caddy Documentation: HTTPS
  • NGINX Documentation: HTTPS
• Web Server Logging
  • Caddy Documentation: Logging
  • NGINX Documentation: Logging