Nginx was publicly released in 2004. Nginx is lightweight footprint and its ability to scale easily on minimal hardware. NGINX can manage thousands of connection on a single-threaded processes known as workers, which demand minimal CPU and RAM resources.
Before installing the nginx on server , lets check the latest available package of nginx on official ubuntu repository
sudo apt show nginx
It is 1.18.0 at the time of writing this article, however the official nginx repository have currently 1.26.0 as the latest package. In this blog you will learn to install the latest nginx from the official repository
Now we need the signing key to verify the nginx package which we want to install, Follow the following steps:
Install the prerequisites:
sudo apt install curl gnupg2 ca-certificates lsb-release ubuntu-keyring -y
Fetch the key:
curl https://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | gpg --dearmor \ | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/nginx-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
set up the apt repository for stable nginx packages
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nginx-archive-keyring.gpg] \ http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu `lsb_release -cs` nginx" \ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list
Set the priority to download nginx package from this new stable repository:
echo -e "Package: *\nPin: origin nginx.org\nPin: release o=nginx\nPin-Priority: 900\n" \ | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/99nginx
Now refresh the list of available packages:
sudo apt update
Run Nginx installation command:
sudo apt install nginx
Verify the packages available in the repository using the following commnad:
sudo apt-cache policy nginx
Currently 1.26.0 is installed on server. If you look below closely , area highlighted in red is the official repository which contains the latest package of nginx version 1.26.0. The one highlighted in yellow is the ubuntu’s repository which contains version 1.18.0 version
Verify the installation version:
sudo nginx -v
Run the following command to start nginx service
sudo systemctl start nginx
Open the public ip address of the VM. default page of nginx will be loaded.
