Setup Nginx Server

Install and setup Nginx server

1. Download Nginx

Download Nginx from here

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wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.11.12.tar.gz
tar xvfz nginx-1.11.12.tar.gz
cd nginx-1.11.12

2. Install Nginx

Install use Nginx configure file.

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./configure

make

make install

show configure help

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./configure --help

  • nginx will be installed under /usr/local/nginx as shown by the ./configure output.

3. Configure Nginx

Nginx is configured to listen by default on port 80.
Similar to apache’s httpd.conf file, nginx has nginx.conf file located under /usr/local/nginx/conf.
You can change port by change the nginx.conf file, change the port 80 to 8081.

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vi /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

  server {
      listen       8081;
      server_name  localhost;

4. Start and Stop Nginx Server

Nginx executable is located under /usr/local/nginx/sbin directory.

  • Just call this executable to start the nginx server.
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cd /usr/local/nginx/sbin

./nginx
  • To stop the nginx server, do the following.
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cd /usr/local/nginx/sbin

./nginx -s stop
  • To view the current version of nginx, do the following:
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./nginx -v

nginx: nginx version: nginx/1.0.5
  • To debug issues, view the error.log and access.log files located under /usr/local/nginx/logs
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ls /usr/local/nginx/logs/

access.log
error.log
nginx.pid

nginx tomcat reverse proxy

add this to nginx.conf file.

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# /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

  listen    80;

  location /tomcat {
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
      proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
  }

Change Apache default port

In /etc/apache2/ports.conf, change the port as

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Listen 8079

Then go to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

And change the first line as

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<VirtualHost *: 8079>

Now restart
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sudo service apache2 restart