NginX Web Server

Nginx is open source and alternative to Apache httpd web server. Its provide more performance and little memory foot print.

In this post i given clear steps to install NginX web server on ubuntu 12.04 operating system . We can install nginx by 2 ways

First Step : Installation from Ubuntu PPA
 sudo -s
 nginx=stable # use nginx=development for latest development version
 add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/$nginx
 apt-get update 
 apt-get install nginx  

After that nginx will be installed in default location usr/local/nginx

To start nginx server do the following steps

Open terminal and type  : cd /usr/local/nginx/sbin/
                                          sudo ./nginx

Nginx is started now to check open browser and type localhost

 if u can see this that's all your nginx server is installed.

Second Step :  Installation from Source 

If you want to install from source you need to download nginx latest version from nginx website and do the following steps in terminal . Currently stable version is nginx.1.4.1 check here for versions

wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.4.1.tar.gz

tar xzf nginx-1.4.1.tar.gz

cd nginx-1.4.1

Build nginx by following steps 

sudo ./configure

sudo make 

sudo make install  

Nginx will be installed in default location usr/local/nginx . If you want to install in different location follow below steps 

./configure --prefix=/home/giluxe/nginx

you can give your own path using --prefix option . To start nginx go to nginx installed directory and execute ./nginx in sbin folder.