Simple install How To

AWS EC2 Instance. Clean install with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Clean install of Nginx

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

Writefreely uploaded via FileZilla.

Here is a copy and paste of the terminal:

./writefreely --config
No config.ini configuration yet. Creating new.

✍ Write Freely Configuration ✍

This quick configuration process will generate the application's config
file, config.ini.

It validates your input along the way, so you can be sure any future
errors aren't caused by a bad configuration. If you'd rather configure your
server manually, instead run: writefreely --create-config and edit that
file.

Server setup 
Production, behind reverse proxy
Local port: 8080

Database setup 
SQLite
Filename: writefreely.db

App setup 
Single user blog
Admin username: *******
Admin password: *******
Blog name: test
Public URL: http://*************
Enabled
Private
Private
2019/01/08 10:39:23 Connecting to sqlite3 database...
2019/01/08 10:39:23 Creating user *******...

Following command shows nothing related to WriteFreely:

tail -f /var/log/syslog

If you can suggest other avenues, I’m happy to leave this server set as is and test further.