Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Installing via package managers

The quickest, and easiest, way to install Nginx is to simply use your OS-provided version. Most of the time, these are kept fairly updated; however, for some Linux distributions focusing on stability, you may only have older versions of Nginx available. Sometimes, your Linux distribution may provide multiple versions of Nginx with different compile flags.

In general, before embarking on a more complex journey, we should check if we can use the easy solution. For a Debian-based operating system, we first find the Nginx compiles available then get the info for the one we want:

apt-cache search nginxapt-cache show PACKAGE_NAMEapt-get install PACKAGE_NAME

For Red Hat Linux-based operating systems, we need to enable ...