Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Nginx provided packages

To set up a yum repository for RHEL/CentOS, create a file named /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo with the following contents:

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

Replace OS with rhel or centos, depending on the distribution used, and OSRELEASE with 6 or 7, for versions 6.x or 7.x, respectively. Afterwards, Nginx can now be installed with yum:

yum install nginx

For Debian-based distributions, we need to first use their signing key to authenticate the package signatures. Download the following file first from http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key.

Then run the following command:

sudo apt-key add nginx_signing.key

With the key added, we can now add the Nginx ...