Chapter 12 Intro to Computer Networks

Learning objectives:

• Details that we won’t dig into:
  • Describe the pieces of a URL.
  • Briefly explain how ports map to services.
  • Outline how IP addresses map to servers.
  • Troubleshoot common network problems.
• Use nginx to make multiple services available from a single server.
  • Install nginx on an Ubuntu server.
  • Allow outside traffic to reach nginx on our AWS EC2.
  • Route traffic to RStudio via nginx.conf.
  • Route traffic to JupyterHub via nginx.conf (skipped here).
  • Route traffic to a plumber api via nginx.conf.