Install¶
Most Linux distributions and BSD variants have NGINX in the usual package repositories and they can be installed via whatever method is normally used to install software ( apt on Debian, emerge on Gentoo, ports on FreeBSD, etc).
Be aware that these packages are often somewhat out-of-date. If you want the latest features and bugfixes, it’s recommended to build from source or use packages directly from nginx.org.
Official Red Hat/CentOS packages¶
To add NGINX yum repository, create a file named /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo and paste one of the configurations below:
[nginx] name=nginx repo baseurl=https://nginx.org/packages/centos/$releasever/$basearch/ gpgcheck=0 enabled=1
[nginx] name=nginx repo baseurl=https://nginx.org/packages/rhel/$releasever/$basearch/ gpgcheck=0 enabled=1
Due to differences between how CentOS, RHEL, and Scientific Linux populate the $releasever variable, it is necessary to manually replace $releasever with either 5 (for 5.x) or 6 (for 6.x), depending upon your OS version.
Official Debian/Ubuntu packages¶
The available NGINX Ubuntu release support is listed at this distribution page. For a mapping of Ubuntu versions to release names, please visit the Official Ubuntu Releases page.
Append the appropriate stanza to /etc/apt/sources.list . If there is concern about persistence of repository additions (i.e. DigitalOcean Droplets), the appropriate stanza may instead be added to a different list file under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ , such as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list .
## Replace $release with your corresponding Ubuntu release. deb https://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ $release nginx deb-src https://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ $release nginx
e.g. Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa):
deb https://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ focal nginx deb-src https://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ focal nginx
To install the packages, execute in your shell:
sudo apt update sudo apt install nginx
If a W: GPG error: https://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu focal InRelease: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY $key is encountered during the NGINX repository update, execute the following:
## Replace $key with the corresponding $key from your GPG error. sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys $key sudo apt update sudo apt install nginx
You have now nginx installed on your server but not ready to serve web pages. you have to start the nginx. You can do this by using this command:
sudo systemctl start nginx
Append the appropriate stanza to /etc/apt/sources.list .
deb https://nginx.org/packages/debian/ squeeze nginx deb-src https://nginx.org/packages/debian/ squeeze nginx
Ubuntu PPA¶
This PPA is maintained by volunteers and is not distributed by nginx.org. It has some additional compiled-in modules and may be more fitting for your environment.
You can get the latest stable version of NGINX from the NGINX PPA on Launchpad: You will need to have root privileges to perform the following commands.
For Ubuntu 20.04 and newer:
sudo -s nginx=stable # use nginx=development for latest development version add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/$nginx apt update apt install nginx
If you get an error about add-apt-repository not existing, you will want to install python-software-properties . For other Debian/Ubuntu based distributions, you can try the lucid variant of the PPA which is the most likely to work on older package sets:
sudo -s nginx=stable # use nginx=development for latest development version echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/$nginx/ubuntu lucid main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx-$nginx-lucid.list apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C300EE8C apt update apt install nginx
Official Win32 Binaries¶
As of NGINX 0.8.50, NGINX is now available as an official Windows binary.
cd c:\ unzip nginx-1.2.3.zip ren nginx-1.2.3 nginx cd nginx start nginx
nginx -s [ stop | quit | reopen | reload ]
For problems look in c:nginxlogserror.log or in EventLog.
In addition, Kevin Worthington maintains earlier Windows builds of the development branch.
Source Releases¶
There are currently two versions of NGINX available: stable (1.20.x) , mainline (1.21.x) . The mainline branch gets new features and bugfixes sooner but might introduce new bugs as well. Critical bugfixes are backported to the stable branch.
In general, the stable release is recommended, but the mainline release is typically quite stable as well. See the FAQ .