Nginx

title

Nginx

author

Sam Bashton (NobleProg Ltd)

What is nginx? ⌘

• Extremely fast HTTP server
• Easily scales to tens of thousands of requests/second
• Event driven, asynchronous architecture

Installing ⌘

• Nginx is not included with RHEL
• Official nginx yum repo is available

Adding the nginx yum repo ⌘

• Replace centos with rhel for Red Hat Enterprise

rpm -Uvh http://nginx.org/packages/centos/5/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-5-0.el5.ngx.noarch.rpm

Installing nginx ⌘

`yum -y install nginx`

Enabling nginx ⌘

Start the nginx service: `service nginx start` Enable at boot: `chkconfig nginx on`

Configuration Basics ⌘

• nginx configuration is split into multiple files
• All take the form of:

```
   <section> {
     <directive> <parameters>;
   }
```

Testing your configuration ⌘

• You can syntax check your nginx config by running

`service nginx configtest`

Virtual host configuration ⌘

• Default virtual host configuration at `/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf`
• Points to web root at /usr/share/nginx/html