Deploying React Static Site on EC2 using Nginx + HTTPS (Certbot)

1) Build React frontend locally

npm install
npm run build

This generates the production build in dist/ (Vite) or build/ (CRA).

2) Verify the build locally

Open the generated folder using VS Code Live Server (or any static server) and ensure the site works properly.

3) Buy a domain

Example:

• sampledomain.com

4) Create an EC2 Ubuntu instance

• Choose Ubuntu (20.04 / 22.04)
• Instance type: t2.micro is enough for static hosting
• Security Group inbound rules:
  • SSH (22) → your IP
  • HTTP (80) → 0.0.0.0/0
  • HTTPS (443) → 0.0.0.0/0

5) Allocate and attach Elastic IP

This ensures your server IP remains fixed.