Binary Releases

Official Red Hat/CentOS packages

To add NGINX yum repository, create a file named /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo and paste one of the configurations below:

CentOS:

[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/centos/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

RHEL:

[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/rhel/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

Due to differences between how CentOS, RHEL, and Scientific Linux populate the $releasever variable, it is necessary to manually replace $releasever with either 5 (for 5.x) or 6 (for 6.x), depending upon your OS version.

Official Debian/Ubuntu packages

Ubuntu:

The available NGINX Ubuntu release support is listed at this distribution page. For a mapping of Ubuntu versions to release names, please visit the Official Ubuntu Releases page.

Append the appropriate stanza to /etc/apt/sources.list. If there is concern about persistence of repository additions (i.e. DigitalOcean Droplets), the appropriate stanza may instead be added to a different list file under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, such as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list.

## Replace $release with your corresponding Ubuntu release.
deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ $release nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ $release nginx

e.g. Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial):

deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ xenial nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ xenial nginx

To install the packages, execute in your shell:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx

If a W: GPG error: http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu xenial Release: The following signatures couldn't beverified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY $key is encountered during the NGINX repository update, execute the following:

## Replace $key with the corresponding $key from your GPG error.
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys $key
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx

Debian 6:

Append the appropriate stanza to /etc/apt/sources.list.

deb http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ squeeze nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ squeeze nginx

sudo -s
nginx=stable # use nginx=development for latest development version
add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/$nginx
apt-get update
apt-get install nginx

sudo -s
nginx=stable # use nginx=development for latest development version
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/$nginx/ubuntu lucid main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx-$nginx-lucid.list
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C300EE8C
apt-get update
apt-get install nginx

Official Win32 Binaries

As of NGINX 0.8.50, NGINX is now available as an official Windows binary.

Installation:

cd c:\
unzip nginx-1.2.3.zip
ren nginx-1.2.3 nginx
cd nginx
start nginx

Control:

nginx -s [ stop | quit | reopen | reload ]

For problems look in c:nginxlogserror.log or in EventLog.

In addition, Kevin Worthington maintains earlier Windows builds of the development branch.

Source Releases

There are currently two versions of NGINX available: stable (1.10.x), mainline (1.11.x). The mainline branch gets new features and bugfixes sooner but might introduce new bugs as well. Critical bugfixes are backported to the stable branch.

In general, the stable release is recommended, but the mainline release is typically quite stable as well. See the FAQ.

./configure
make
sudo make install

After Installing

There are many different example configurations that can be found in Getting Started section. Also the Pitfalls and Common Mistakes page will help keep you from making mistakes that so many users before you did.

References

Original Documentation