Nginx was released in 2004 and since then growing rapidly. It holds more than 30% market share in web servers.
Let’s take a look at the installation procedure for various UNIX distro.
Ubuntu
Ensure you are logged in as a root Execute the following command
It will take few seconds to install.
RHEL/CentOS
As usual, log in as a root and use the below yum command If using RHEL 8 then you may also use dnf command. It will install including the dependencies. Below snapshot from CentOS.
Installation Using Source Code
If your server doesn’t have Internet connectivity or working on the DMZ server, then you can compile from source code to install it. The following demonstration is from CentOS/RHEL.
Download the latest version of Nginx source code and transfer to the server.
Extract the downloaded file
After extract, you should see the following files and folders
Now, we are ready to configure and install it. You can control the installation location using –prefix=path parameter. Let’s install under /opt/nginx with the SSL module. Note: if you are doing this on a brand new server where the compiler is not installed then you got to install the following. Upon completion, you should see nginx is installed under /opt/nginx with the following folders. Congratulation, You have just installed Nginx!
Stop and Start Procedure
If you compiled using the source code then to start
Go to sbin folder and execute nginx
To stop If installed using repository then What next? If this is for production then do necessary hardening and security configuration and if exploring to learn then check out this online course.
