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Nginx (pronounced with engine x) is a lightweight Web server/reverse proxy server and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy server that is released under a bsd-like protocol. Developed by Russian program designer Igor Sysoev, originally used by Russia's large portal and search engine Rambler (Russian: Рамблер).

Why Choose Nginx?

-High concurrent connections
-Low memory consumption
-Low cost
-Simple configuration
-Support Rewrite rewrite
-Built-in health check
-Save Bandwidth
-Supports hot deployment
-High stability

Installing Nginx

There are 2 ways to install Nginx under Linux:

1. Using Nginx Packages

2. Download Nginx source code compilation

-Use Nginx Packages

For Rhel/centos, Nginx provides a yum library, which can be installed by Yum by creating the corresponding Yum repository file.

vim/etc/Yumrepos.d/Nginx.repo  #创建文件 # writes the following to the Nginx.repo file [nginx]name=nginx Repobaseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/centos/7/$basearch/gpgcheck=0 enabled=1yuminstall nginx  #安装nginx

-Compile and install

To compile and install Nginx, make sure that the development Tools "Server platfrom Development" package Group and Openssl-devel Zlib-devel Pcre-devel are installed.

Openssl-devel: Provides SSL functionality

Zlib-devel:nginx offers gzip modules and requires zlib library support

Pcre-devel:nginx provides rewrite functionality, requires Pcre library support

Yum " Development Tools " " Server platfrom Development " Yum Install openssl-devel zlib-devel pcre-devel

Nginx source code in http://nginx.org/en/download.html download.

wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.10.0.tar.gz

Unzip and output compilation options

tar zxvf nginx* && cd nginx*. /configure--help

If you want to open a module of Nginx, add--with-xxx_module to the compilation option, and then add--without-xxx_module to close a module.

The simplest installation commands are as follows:

./Configuremake makeinstall

Custom compilation options:

./configure--prefix=/usr/local/Nginx--conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf--user=Nginx--group=Nginx--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/Error.log--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/Access.log--pid-path=/var/run/Nginx.pid--lock-path=/var/lock/Nginx.lock--with-Http_ssl_module--with-Http_stub_status_module--with-Http_gzip_static_module--with-Debug Make Make Install

Custom compilation options Install Nginx, after running the make command, compile the generated file information will be output.

Start Nginx:

/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx-c/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Close Nginx:

Nginx-s Stop    -s quit    #正常关闭 # can also kill Nginx process with kill command to close Nginxkill -S quit 'cat /var/run/nginx.pid '

Reload the configuration file:

Nginx-s Reload

Reopen the log file:

Nginx-s Reopen

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