Running Universal Dashboard with Ubuntu and Nginx (With HTTPS!)

A basic UniversalDashboard running on nginx

Index

• Prerequisites

• Configuration

• HTTPS (Optional)

Prerequisites

For this writeup, I’m using Ubuntu 18.04. Software packages are geared toward using that version.

First, we’ll need to install our dependencies

There are several ways to install Powershell core on Ubuntu. I recommend Microsoft’s documentation for ubuntu 18.04 here

Once installed, enter Powershell and install the UniversalDashboard module. This will use the community edition.

pwsh PS> Install-Module UniversalDashboard.Community -Scope CurrentUser Confirm it is installed:

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