Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Begin with NGINX
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Downloading and Installing NGINX
Installing NGINX via package managers
NGINX-provided packages
Compiling NGINX from source
Installing GNU Compiler Collection
The PCRE library
The zlib library
OpenSSL
Downloading and compiling the NGINX source code
Websites and resources
Version branches
Features
Downloading and extracting
Exploring the options for configuring the compilation
The easy way
Path options
Build configuration issues
Compiling and installing
Controlling the NGINX service
Daemons and services
Users and groups
NGINX command-line switches
Starting and stopping the daemon
Testing the configuration
Other switches
Adding NGINX as a system service
systemd unit file
Handling system errors ...
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