@ -122,13 +122,22 @@ Deployment is a military term, that refers to moving troops and army around on t
It's not surprising that technologies developed within army still talk the army language. But being so un-surprising, words and the worlds they carry along sneak into our worldviews, becoming normal, natural, invisible. Becoming just the way the world is, justifying and reinforcing the separation between user and developer, server and served, etc.
Looking at etymology, _deploy_ feels close to _display_. They share roots and gestures of making something visible and public, not to seclude far away, but to make accessible.
Looking at etymology, _deploy_ feels close to _display_. They share roots and gestures of making something visible and public, not to seclude it far away, but to make it accessible.
Let's see.
## NGINX Configuration
To deploy the padliography on a server, and make it accessible from a web browser, it's necessary to configure some ports to make the communication between the application and the world possible.
To deploy the padliography on a server, and make it accessible from a web browser, it's necessary to configure a way to make the communication between the application and the world possible.
In a server a lot of things are happening at the same time. When unfolding an application there it's important to reserve it a dedicated channel to talk with the outside.
There are various way to organize this communicational tangle: one of them is to use a reverse proxy. This system acts as a thin layer that intercept the messages that a server receives, delivering them to the appropriate application.
In order to make it work, every app that need to exchange data with the outside listen to a so called _port_, that is something like an address in the internal network of the server.
A reverse proxy listen to the external requests that come from the web, such as someone visiting the url `https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/padliography`, checks in its list of location and ports and finally finds out that indeed, requests to `/soupboat/padliography` are actually directed towards the port number 3000.
