apt-get install nginx
vi /var/www/index.html
I find the writeup similarly misleading.
"all I want to do is build a web site"...
"... hosted on google apps..".
... manage content
... collaborate among team members
... CMSy stuff.
So in other words, all you want to do is build a pipelined product. Which is totally cool - but it's definitely not just building a web site.
Now that everyone uses Facebook, Gmail, Amazon, Twitter on a daily basis, the average person thinks of those as simple 'websites', that are easy to build.
Almost daily I have friends/family come to me with a business idea that starts off as "it will be easy.. just like <huge site> but with blah".
Non-tech people honestly think 'websites' are simple things, and we should be able to knock-out a Facebook or Twitter clone in a few days.
I'm really surprised that people actually look at the websites of multi-million dollar internet-only companies and think it must be easy to build something worth that much.
After all, who do you know that has paid to use them?
(obviously, I understand the reality, but most don't)
Where do I type that? By the way.. What is apt-get? What is nginx?
Why put the index.html in /var/www?
Why use nginx I've heard of apache why wouldn't I use that?
You haven't even detailed how to setup a linux that would use apt. And why not centos?
Where is the site going to be hosted, AWS/Digital Ocean/ Linode/ Heroku? How do they properly configure the machine to serve to internet?
How are my non-technical clients/employees/founders/etc. going to update it without bugging me all the time?
In other words my friend you've grossly over simplified the process of putting a website on the internet where other people can get to it and making it easily updatable by laymen
Instead the average person can be expected to google for something along the lines of "free website" or something similar, arrive at wordpress/blogger/tumblr/squarespace/flavour-of-month .com and just create an account.
I'd like to build just a website and have the rest set to an automatic that I really don't care about configuring.