Terraform Basics 3: Provisioning Your First Web Server @tutoriaLinux

Uploaded April 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Learn how to provision a DigitalOcean droplet with Terraform, and then automatically configure it (via Terraform provisioners) as an nginx web server.

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Part of the project-based Terraform mini-course: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtK75qxsQaMIHQOaDd0Zl_jOuu1m3vcWO

# TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:12 Terraform Providers and Resources
2:10 Project Github Repo - github.com/groovemonkey/digitalocean-terraform
2:43 provider.tf config file
3:30 Creating a Droplet resource (web server)
5:57 Configure DigitalOcean personal access token (API key) and SSH Key
6:46 Terraform init
7:10 The Terraform plan/apply/develop loop

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Terraform Basics 3: Provisioning Your First Web Server

$Web Server Project 02 Setting up MySQL and PHP Heres how to get your database and interpreter set up for hosting an application on the LAMP/LEMP stack (Linux / Apache/Nginx / MySQL / PHP). This is the second of three videos about how to set up a webserver (and a WordPress blog or website on Linux). In this video, Ill show you how to install and configure a MySQL Database. Ill also show you how to set up PHP and php-fpm (our PHP interpreter and the fastcgi process manager) so that nginx can ask PHP to render pages with dynamic content for website visitors. This video is quick-and-dirty no optimization, only the most basic security precautions, etc...but it should get you started. Heres the nginx configuration file content for /etc/nginx/sites-available/{yoursite}: server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; root /usr/share/nginx/html; index index.php index.html index.htm; server_name server_domain_name_or_IP; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; } error_page 404 /404.html; error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html; location = /50x.html { root /usr/share/nginx/html; } location ~ .php$ { try_files $uri =404; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } } Full Linux Sysadmin Basics Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtK75qxsQaMLZSo7KL-PmiRarU7hrpnwK Check out my project-based Linux System Administration course (free sample videos): https://www.udemy.com/hands-on-linux-self-hosted-wordpress-for-linux-beginners/?couponCode=tl35 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tutorialinux Official Site: https://tutorialinux.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tutorialinux Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tutorialinux$

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