Install Procedure for nginx¶

Requirements¶

• a installed and supported operating system (e.g. CentOS 8.x)
• root-access
• a fast internet connection

Preliminary Note¶

This procedure is based on a documentation supplied by https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-nginx-on-centos-8-de

Install¶

there are multiple streams available.

dnf module list | grep nginx

as of 2021-10-19:
1.14 (default), 1.16, 1.18, mainline, 1.20

dnf module enable nginx:1.18
dnf install nginx

Service¶

systemctl start nginx
systemctl enable nginx

Firewall¶

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https
firewall-cmd --reload