Run Nuxt.js on DigitalOcean, with zero downtime deployments! Part 3

Let’s wrap this up already!

We’ve gone through the following:

  • Started the series adding a droplet, and setting up your Nuxt.js project folder structure
  • We then went over setting up Ngnix as our proxy server and running the actual project
  • We will now set up a basic firewall and install an SSL! (this post will combine recourses from the following reference 1, reference 2)

So, you’ve come this far, I assume you’re logged into your droplet right now through SSH.

Lets set up a basic firewall!

We will first make sure we can access our droplet through SSH when the firewall is enabled.

ufw allow OpenSSH

And then we’ll enable the firewall with:

ufw enable

You’ll type ‘y‘ to accept, and enter to proceed.  If you type ufw status, you’ll see that SSH connections are still allowed.

Time some SSL action!

Installing Certbot / Allow it through the firewall and set it up to auto-renew

These next items will basically be a list of commands you’ll enter 1 after the other, or responses you’ll get back.  For a more of a deep dive into it, please see the reference 2 link (you should do this just to have a better understanding of it)

Grab the repo!

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot

Press enter to accept it and then install Certbot’s Nginx with:

sudo apt install python-certbot-nginx

Boom! Now you can assign it after we allow HTTPS through the firewall

Run the following:

sudo ufw status

You’ll probably see something like:

Now run:

  • sudo ufw allow 'Nginx Full'
  • sudo ufw delete allow 'Nginx HTTP'

You’ll see something like this now:

Getting an SSL and assigning it!

Nginx is now going to do most the heavy lifting since we installed the plugin for it earlier.

Run the following:

sudo certbot --nginx -d example.com -d www.example.com

This runs certbot and other magic, You’ll want to accept it and choose what option works best for your when it asks.  If it works you’ll see the following:

Since this is a new install, #2 is probably your best choice and you’ll then see the following if that was successful:

Let’s do a test renewal to make sure you’re good to go:

sudo certbot renew --dry-run

Now lets restart nginx just for good measure

sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl restart nginx

And that’s it!

Make sure you check your Nuxt.js application is running in your /project folder and enjoy!