Installing Latest Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty LTS

September 23, 2016 | By Regaz | Filed in: Tutorial.

Nginx Quick-Start for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty

The Linux Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step How to Install and Getting-Started with the Latest Nginx Web Server on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr LTS 32/64-bit Desktop/Server.

And NGINX for Linux is a Free, Open-Source, High-Performance HTTP Server and Reverse Proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 Proxy Server.

Furthermore, NGINX is known for its High performance, Stability, Rich Feature set, Simple Configuration, and Low Resource Consumption.

It is Necessary to Manually Set Up the Apt Nginx Repo to Get Installed the Latest Mainline Release, because the Default Repos are Serving an Older Nginx Release…

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Login as Super User
```
sudo su
```

Set Up the Nginx Mainline Apt Repo

echo "deb http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ trusty nginx" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list

echo "deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ trusty nginx" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list

Add the Signing Key

cd ~

wget http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key

apt-key add nginx_signing.key

rm nginx_signing.key

Installing Nginx

apt-get update

sudo apt-get -y install nginx

Stop Apache & Restart Nginx (Only if Apache is Installed!)
```
sudo service apache2 stop
```
```
sudo service nginx restart
```
Check Nginx Installation
On a localhost:
```
curl http://127.0.0.1
```
Or browse the Server IP…
To Edit the Nginx Conf File
```
nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
```
End the Super User Session
```
exit
```

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