How to Install Nginx on Oracle Linux

To Install Nginx on Oracle Linux

Introduction :

NGINX (Engine X) is one of the most popular, powerful, and high-performance open-source HTTP web servers and reverse proxies that has an event-driven architecture and can also be used as a load balancer, mail proxy, and HTTP cache since it is free, fast, stable, easy to configure, and consumes little resources.

Installation steps :

Step 1 : check the version of the OS

[root@linuxhelp ~]# cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Oracle Linux Server"
VERSION="8.4"
ID="ol"
ID_LIKE="fedora"
VARIANT="Server"
VARIANT_ID="server"
VERSION_ID="8.4"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="Oracle Linux Server 8.4"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8:4:server"
HOME_URL="https://linux.oracle.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.oracle.com/"

Step 2 : Install Nginx package

[root@linuxhelp ~]# yum install nginx
Last metadata expiration check: 0:21:06 ago on Friday 17 December 2021 07:08:27 AM IST.
Dependencies resolved.
============================================================================================================================================
 Package                               Architecture     Version                                               Repository               Size
============================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 nginx                                 x86_64           1:1.14.1-9.0.1.module+el8.0.0+5347+9282027e           ol8_appstream           569 k
Installing dependencies:
 nginx-all-modules                     noarch           1:1.14.1-9.0.1.module+el8.0.0+5347+9282027e           ol8_appstream            24 k
 nginx-mod-http-image-filter           x86_64           1:1.14.1-9.0.1.module+el8.0.0+5347+9282027e           ol8_appstream            35 k
 nginx-mod-http-perl                   x86_64           1:1.14.1-9.0.1.module+el8.0.0+5347+9282027e           ol8_appstream            46 k
 nginx-mod-http-xslt-filter            x86_64           1:1.14.1-9.0.1.module+el8.0.0+5347+9282027e           ol8_appstream            34 k
 nginx-mod-mail                        x86_64           1:1.14.1-9.0.1.module+el8.0.0+5347+9282027e           ol8_appstream            64 k
 nginx-mod-stream                      x86_64           1:1.14.1-9.0.1.module+el8.0.0+5347+9282027e           ol8_appstream            86 k

Transaction Summary
============================================================================================================================================
Install  7 Packages

Total download size: 857 k
Installed size: 2.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y

Step 3 : start the Nginx service.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl start nginx

Step 4 : Enable the Nginx service.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl enable nginx
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/nginx.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service.

Step 5 : start the Nginx service.

 [root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl status nginx
● nginx.service - The nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service.d
           └─php-fpm.conf
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-12-17 07:30:08 IST; 4min 35s ago
 Main PID: 5058 (nginx)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 24798)
   Memory: 3.7M
   CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service
           ├─5058 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx
           └─5059 nginx: worker process

Dec 17 07:30:08 linuxhelp systemd[1]: Starting The nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server...
Dec 17 07:30:08 linuxhelp nginx[5055]: nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
Dec 17 07:30:08 linuxhelp nginx[5055]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
Dec 17 07:30:08 linuxhelp systemd[1]: Started The nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server.

Step 6 : Type localhost in Browser

With this Installation of Nginx on oracle linux has comes to an End