Nginx has two primary repositories or branches that folks can use to install or update Nginx packages. When you install Nginx from CentOS default repositories, you’re installing Nginx from the stable repository.
Every new feature is added to the mainline repository first and after it has been tested and proven to be stable, before the repository switches to be stable. If you’re not overly cautious and wish to install the latest and greatest Nginx packages and features, you may have to install Nginx from it Mainline repository.
Table of Contents
Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.
Step 2. Installing Mainline version.
Prerequisites
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step install Nginx mainline version on CentOS 7 server.
Install Nginx Mainline Version on CentOS 7
Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.
yum clean all yum -y update
Step 2. Installing Mainline version.
First, create nginx repository file in CentOS:
nano /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo
Add these lines into the file and save it:
[nginx.org] name=nginx.org repo baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/centos/7/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1
Now update repositories and install Nginx:
yum update yum install nginx -y
Check Nginx version:
### nginx -v nginx version: nginx/1.13.8
Start Nginx and add it to automatically start on your system start-up using:
systemctl restart nginx systemctl enable nginx
You can verify that Nginx is really running by opening your favorite web browser and entering the URL http://your-server’s-address, if it is installed, then you will see this:
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Nginx on CentOS 7. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Nginx mainline version web server on CentOS 7 systems. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Nginx web site.