• Paragone@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I am trying to lear basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript ( again, last learned HTML back in the 1990’s, am using “JavaScript: The Good Parts” & other books ),

    & have discovered that you can have, on the same phone/tablet, Termux/Nginx running,

    you have to feed /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/nginx/nginx.conf the root-dir you want it to use

    ( which is actually in a proot-distro install, down below

    /data/data/llcom.termux/files/usr/var/lib/proot-distro/installed-rootfs/ … )

    … and then you can have your browser hit

    http://localhost:8080/

    and it’ll grab index.html.


    Notice that that is http, NOT httpS.

    None of the browsers I’ve tried can get the default connection to localhost, because they all default to https, & nginx isn’t serving https.

    That wasted an entire fscking day, to discover.


    Now learning can begin!