Howto install nginx webserver in Debian
Posted by Admin on February 23rd, 2009
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Basic HTTP features:
Handling of static files, index files, and autoindexing; open file descriptor cache;
Accelerated reverse proxying without caching; simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
Accelerated support without caching of remote FastCGI servers; simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
Modular architecture. Filters include gzipping, byte ranges, chunked responses, XSLT, and SSI. Multiple SSI inclusions within a single page can be processed in parallel if they are handled by FastCGI or proxied servers.
SSL and TLS SNI support.
Mail proxy server features:
User redirection to IMAP/POP3 backend using an external HTTP authentication server;
User authentication using an external HTTP authentication server and connection redirection to internal SMTP backend;
Authentication methods:
POP3: USER/PASS, APOP, AUTH LOGIN/PLAIN/CRAM-MD5;
IMAP: LOGIN, AUTH LOGIN/PLAIN/CRAM-MD5;
SMTP: AUTH LOGIN/PLAIN/CRAM-MD5;
SSL support;
STARTTLS and STLS support
Other HTTP features:
name- and IP-based virtual servers;
keep-alive and pipelined connections support;
flexible configuration;
reconfiguration and online upgrade without interruption of the client processing;
access log formats, bufferred log writing, and quick log rotation;
4xx-5xx error codes redirection;
rewrite module;
access control based on client IP address and HTTP Basic authentication;
PUT, DELETE, MKCOL, COPY and MOVE methods;
FLV streaming;
speed limitation;
limitation of simultaneous connections or requests from one address.
Experimental features:
embedded perl.
At the time of writing, the latest stable version is 0.6.35 and if you need more information check nginx main site http://nginx.net/
Preparing your system
First letus install some required packages
sudo aptitude install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libssl-dev zlib1g-dev
Download latest stable version from here or using the following command
#wget http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.6.35.tar.gz
Now you have nginx-0.6.35.tar.gz file unpack this file using the following command
#tar -zvxf nginx-0.6.35.tar.gz
cd nginx-0.6.35
Now you need to start installation so for this you need to check what options you want to use from here http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxInstallOptions
In this installation we are using only two options --sbin-path and --with-http_ssl_module
./configure
--sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin--with-http_ssl_module
After completion of installation you should see similar to the following details which are very useful make a note of them
nginx path prefix: “/usr/local/nginx”
nginx binary file: “/usr/local/sbin”
nginx configuration file: “/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf”
Start Nginx using the following command
#/usr/local/sbin/nginx
Now you can navigate your web browser and point the follow url
http://yourserverip
You should see welcome to nginx message
If you want nginx startup script download from here in to the /etc/init.d directory
Now you need to make scipt executable
#chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx
Now we have the base script prepared, we need to add it to the default run levels using the following command
#/usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f nginx defaults
From now you can use the following commands to start,stop and restart nginx.By default nginx will not provide this scripts
#/etc/init.d/nginx start
# /etc/init.d/nginx stop
# /etc/init.d/nginx restart
March 25th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
thanks for your acticles , but i find the link is broken.
http://www.debianadmin.com/images/ngix, cant download the
nginx startup script.
March 25th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
@I have updated the link now
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:44 am
I tried nginx and liked it, but I wanted to run apache with php5 support, for myphpadmin.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
why the package is not installed from debian repositories? It’s configure with ssl support, too
Bye