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;title: Nginx<br />
;author: Sam Bashton (NobleProg Ltd)<br />
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=== What is nginx? ⌘===<br />
* Extremely fast HTTP server<br />
* Easily scales to tens of thousands of requests/second<br />
* Event driven, asynchronous architecture<br />
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== Installing ⌘==<br />
* Nginx is not included with RHEL<br />
* Official nginx yum repo is available<br />
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=== Adding the nginx yum repo ⌘===<br />
* Replace centos with rhel for Red Hat Enterprise<br />
rpm -Uvh http://nginx.org/packages/centos/5/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-5-0.el5.ngx.noarch.rpm<br />
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=== Installing nginx ⌘===<br />
`yum -y install nginx`<br />
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=== Enabling nginx ⌘===<br />
Start the nginx service: `service nginx start`<br />
Enable at boot: `chkconfig nginx on`<br />
=== Configuration Basics ⌘===<br />
* nginx configuration is split into multiple files<br />
* All take the form of:<br />
```<br />
<section> {<br />
<directive> <parameters>;<br />
}<br />
```<br />
=== Testing your configuration ⌘===<br />
* You can syntax check your nginx config by running<br />
`service nginx configtest`<br />
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=== Virtual host configuration ⌘===<br />
* Default virtual host configuration at `/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf`<br />
* Points to web root at /usr/share/nginx/html</div>
Cesar Chew