Server tools and web server
Add common command-line tools and choose how your server answers visitors.
ServerNest is in development. This guide describes the current preview, and details may change.
Add tools
Open the server's page and find the Server tools card. It shows which of these tools are installed: Git, Zip, Unzip, curl, Wget, rsync, htop, jq and SQLite. Tick the ones you want and install them. Only tools on this list can be installed from the dashboard. Only owners and admins can add them.
Choose the web server
On the server's page, you can pick how the server answers visitors:
- Nginx: fast and light. A good choice for most apps.
- Apache: reads .htaccess files, so older apps and many WordPress plugins work without changes.
- Nginx and Apache together: Nginx handles visitors and HTTPS, and Apache runs your app.
Sites are offline for a few seconds while the web server changes. The new settings are tested first. If a site stops working, the old setup comes back by itself. Changing the web server is not available yet on systems in preview.