Why to use Nginx?

Nginx is the most popular web servers in the world. It is used for hosting websites and it holds highest traffic sites on internet. It is more resource friendly than Apache.

Step 1: Installing Nginx

Firstly update the packages and then install nginx by these commands:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nginx

You will probably be prompted for your user's password. Enter it to confirm that you wish to complete the installation. The appropriate software will be downloaded to your server and then automatically installed.

Step 2: Check Web server

When you have your servers IP address or domain, enter it into your browser's address bar:

http://server_domain_name_or_IP

Or if you are installing it on localhost than simply write on your browser's address bar and hit enter

localhost

If you will see above snapshot on your domain/ip/localhost page then it means that now you are all set to go!

Step 3: Manage Nginx process

To stop nginx server, write below command:

$ sudo service nginx stop

To start nginx server again, write this command:

$ sudo service nginx start

To restart nginx server, write this command:

$ sudo service nginx restart

We can make sure that our web server will restart automatically when the server is rebooted by typing:

$ sudo update-rc.d nginx defaults

This should already be enabled by default, so you may see a message like this:

System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/nginx already exist.

All done now!

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