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Attempting to host a website with HTML and CSS...

Hello!

I’ve been trying to figure this out all week and keep ending up the same solution. Maybe there’s a better way?

Anyways, I’m attempting to use my digital ocean server to host a website that has HTML and CSS. I have Nginx on my server and it is running and I have a website hosted. It turns out Nginx does not support CSS in any way or form.

How do I get around this? Or, is there something else I should be using outside of Nginx?

Thank you in advance!

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Bobby Iliev
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• December 4, 2022

Hi there,

In addition to what has already been mentioned, you could also host your HTML + CSS static website for free on the DigitalOcean App Platform.

Here is a quick video on how to do that:

Hope that this helps.

Best,

Bobby

b54a07ce39b84b9987aec80a170775 • December 3, 2022

Thank you so much for the feedback!

How do I access the config file?

I’m also not opposed to Apache. It’s not necessarily Nginx where I believe the issue is. I’m really new and the amount of new “how to” Nginx content that is available is unreal. I can show you 100 videos on how to hook up a static html website and not one that shows how to host multiple websites on a single server.

Anyways, thank you again for your time.

KFSys
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• December 3, 2022

Hi @b54a07ce39b84b9987aec80a170775,

As explained by Sergio already, Nginx is not the cause of the CSS not displaying itself. Having said that, what you can add in your configuration file for your website is

 location ~* \.(js|jpg|png|css)$ {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html/;
  }

Of course change the path /usr/share/nginx/html/; to your actual website path.

Additionally, if you are finding Nginx difficult, you can always use Apache as an alternative:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-the-apache-web-server-on-ubuntu-20-04

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