Centos Install Nginx

Nginx-centos.md

centopia | the nginx build guide

This is a step-by-step guide on how to build Nginx-1.6.2 from source on a CentOS 7 VPS or Virtualbox.

Manual Build

update yum to use current & stable CentOs libraries

$ yum -y update

install the below packages that are needed to run / build Nginx

$ yum -y install bzip2 gcc-c++ pcre-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel libxslt-devel 

create a repository folder and dowmload the Nginx source file

$ cd /usr/local/src && wget -O nginx-1.6.2.tar.gz http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.6.2.tar.gz 
$ tar -xzf  nginx-1.6.2.tar.gz 
$ cd nginx-1.6.2

let's configure Nginx with the basic modules. (you can add/remove any module you want)

$ ./configure --user=nginx --group=nginx --prefix=/usr/share/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-pcre 

build Nginx using make and make install

$ make && make install

create nginx user

$ useradd -r nginx

get Nginx script for the 'service' command and give it proper permissions (for exec)

$ wget -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samayo/centopia/master/nginx-1.6.2/utils/init /etc/init.d/nginx
$ chmod +x  /etc/init.d/nginx

reload system daemon, open & save firewall got (nginx) http ports

$ systemctl daemon-reload 
$ systemctl start firewalld
$ firewall-cmd --add-service=http 
$ firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http

Restart nginx

$ sudo service nginx start

Configuration

To start using server{} blocks, you must create a conf.d folder and copy the example file as seen below.

# create a folder to store your server configuration file
$ mkdir /etc/nginx/conf.d
# Go to your centopia-master folder and copy the example configuration file. 
$ cp nginx/nginx-1.6.2/utils/my-site.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/