Detailed tutorial on installing Nginx 1.16.0 under Linux

Because I have been tinkering with Linux recently, I wanted to install a new version of nginx. I looked for a tutorial but couldn't find the corresponding one. After a little tinkering, I finally successfully installed the latest version.

The server environment is centos, the following are the detailed steps:

Install necessary dependency plugins

yum install -y gcc gcc-c++ pcre \
pcre-devel zlib zlib-devel openssl openssl-devel wget

Create a folder and switch to it

mkdir /customer && cd /customer

Download the installation package (if you want to install other versions, you can go to the official website link below and select the link of other versions to copy and replace)

wget https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.16.0.tar.gz

Unzip and install

tar zxvf nginx-1.16.0.tar.gz
cd nginx-1.16.0
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nginx
make && make install

Adding global commands

ln -s /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx /usr/bin/nginx

Test the installation

nginx -V

As shown below, the installation is successful:

Verify that the service is started successfully

netstat -ntlp | grep nginx

as follows:

Add nginx service

vim /lib/systemd/system/nginx.service

Insert the following into:

[Unit]
Description=nginx
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
ExecReload=/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s reload
ExecStop=/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s quit
PrivateTmp=true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Start nginx as a service

pkill nginx

systemctl start nginx

Check whether the service is started

 systemctl status nginx
 netstat -ntlp | grep nginx

Configure nginx service to start automatically at boot

systemctl enable nginx

Now the installation is complete, the configuration file is:

vim /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

Optional:

The version number of nginx is turned on by default and can be viewed in the default error page and http response header.

Different versions, especially lower versions of nginx, may have vulnerabilities, so if you don't want others to obtain the version number, you can choose to hide the version number.

Hide nginx version number

cd /usr/local/nginx/conf
vim nginx.conf

Change the "server_tokens" in the nginx.conf file to "off":

http {
...
server_tokens off;
...
}

Modify fastcgi.conf again

vim fastcgi.conf

Modify the following line

fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version;
# Change to:
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx;

Restart nginx

systemctl restart nginx

Hide version number completed

Summarize

The above is a detailed tutorial on how to install Nginx 1.16.0 under Linux. I hope it will be helpful to you. If you have any questions, please leave me a message and I will reply to you in time!