Configure a API Backend Server with custom domain on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Ubuntu with NGINX and Certbot SSL

Hi all,

Build your own API backend server on AWS free-tier with SSL.

The below steps with reference links will provide detailed information of each step.

1. AWS account - Free-tier
2. Create EC2 Ubuntu
3. Connect to Ubuntu from your local using SSH/Putty
4. Install NodeJS
1. Open terminal
2. curl -fsSL http://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x | sudo -E bash -
3. sudo apt update
4. sudo apt install nodejs //installs latest LTS nodejs
5. Create a sample node server
6. Install and configure node server process manager
1. sudo npm install -g pm2@latest
2. Navigate to nodejs server folder
3. pm2 start <filename>
4. pm2 startup systemd
5. pm2 save
6. pm2 list // List all the nodejs apps with status
7. pm2 stop/restart/start app_name/id // Actions of nodejs servers
7. Install Nginx
8. Configure your domain DNS records to map to AWS EC2 public/elastic IP address
9. Secure Nginx with SSL certs

Hope the above information is useful to set up the environment and play with your backend server.

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Run or deploy Go (Golang) project code in IIS as web server

 Hi folks,

Today we are going to see, how we can run or deploy the Go (Golang) project in IIS.

Development

1. Create your Golang project with web APIs
2. Build the Go project
3. Go build
4. Result will be an .exe file
5. Create a web.config file
6. Update the following content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<configuration>

    <system.webServer>

        <handlers>

            <add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModule" resourceType="Unspecified" />

        </handlers>

        <aspNetCore processPath=".\<<GoProject>>.exe" />

    </system.webServer>

</configuration>

Deployment 

1. Place the <<GoProject.exe>> and web.config in IIS server accessible folder.
2. Open IIS
3. Create a new website
4. Enter the web app details with port different from the project internal port
5. Create or choose pool with .NET CLR version as "No managed code"
6. The configured website looks like below
7. 
8. After starting the website, user should be able to access the APIs

Hope, this information helps you to deploy the GOlang project in IIS.

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