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# Set Up NGINX
If you don't want HTTPS
(for communications between the external world and your node),
then you can skip all the NGINX steps on this page.
Note: This simple deployment template uses NGINX for more than just HTTPS.
For example, it also does basic rate limiting.
## Install NGINX
SSH into your machine and install NGINX:
```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx
```
## Configure & Reload NGINX
Get an SSL certificate for your node's subdomain (such as `bnode.example.com`).
* Copy the SSL private key into `/etc/nginx/ssl/cert.key`
* Create a "PEM file" (text file) by concatenating your SSL certificate with all intermediate certificates (_in that order, with the intermediate certs last_).
* Copy that PEM file into `/etc/nginx/ssl/cert.pem`
* In the
[bigchaindb/bigchaindb repository on GitHub](https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb),
find the file `nginx/nginx.conf` and copy its contents to
`/etc/nginx/nginx.conf` on your machine (i.e. replace the existing file there).
* Edit that file (`/etc/nginx/nginx.conf`): replace the two instances of
the string `example.testnet2.com`
with your chosen subdomain (such as `bnode.example.com`).
* Reload NGINX by doing:
```
sudo service nginx reload
```