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Muh Fachrul Razy c8d39b6658 Add 'sudo' and Step 3 - 4 (#33067 )

Add sudo at the first of each syntax line and added Step 3 (firewall adjustment) and Step 4 (check nginx service)

2019-04-28 10:01:51 -07:00

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Nginx

Nginx

Introduction

Nginx is a web server which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP cache.
It is one of the most popular web servers in use and is responsible for hosting some of the largest and highest-traffic sites on the internet.
It is proven to be lighter on resources than httpd/Apache.
Nginx is free and open-source software, first released in 2004.

Update the local package index and install Nginx from default repositories:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install nginx
$ sudo systemctl status nginx

Enable nginx on the firewall using ufw

sudo ufw allow 'Nginx HTTP'

Validate nginx is running:

systemctl status nginx

Add Nginx repository and install:

$ sudo yum install epel-release
$ sudo yum install nginx
$ sudo systemctl start nginx # will start the server

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

This is where you will find the global configuration values, what user the nginx process runs as, how many workers it has etc.

/etc/nginx/sites-available/*

As one nginx instance can run multiple sites with separate configurations this is the directory where you will have the separate configuration files. Usually there is a file named 'default', but any file in this directory that can be parsed by nginx is available.

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*

This is the directory that holds the site configurations that are actually live (enabled), you should not move files here directly, rather sym-link the files from the sites-available directory. Making a linked file in this directory does not make it live, for that you need to restart nginx or have it reload the config. Usually done via systemd.

/var/log/nginx