Nginx

24 Dec 2016

Notes on working with nginx web server (on CentOS 7)

1. Installation

Prerequisite: Add the nginx epel repo to the system.

• Create a file named nginx.repo under /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and add

  [nginx]
  name=nginx repo
  baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/OS/release/$basearch/
  gpgcheck=0
  enabled=1
  

  The OS should be linux distribution. In my case, it is centos and the release should be 5,6,7 for 5.x, 6.x, 7.x resp

Run sudo yum install nginx.

• This will install nginx on the system.

2. Directory Structure

The directory structure for nginx is

• Configuration directory: /etc/nginx/
• Default Configuration file: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
• Virutal Host Configuration file: /etc/nginx/conf.d/
• Custom Configuration file: /etc/nginx/conf.d/
• Logs(Access and error logs): /var/log/nginx/
• Default Virutal host files: /usr/share/nginx/html/