What is Nginx? Nginx (pronounced ‘engine X’) is an alternative to Apache and is considered to be one of the most popular HTTP web servers in the world. As opposed to Apache, Nginx tends to consume fewer resources and improves server responsiveness. Its event-driven design is what makes it resource-friendly. Above all, it allows admins to set up advanced configurations and can deal with a high load of concurrent connections. Besides being a good fit for an HTTP web server, Nginx also works as a reverse proxy , load balancer, and standard mail server. In this article, you will learn how to install and configure Nginx on CentOS 7 . Prerequisites A CentOS self-managed server or VM A Domain. You will need to connect a domain to your Nginx web server Sudo or root privileges [root@user ~] SELinux set up properly How to Install Nginx on CentOS 7 Generally, CentOS is the preferred distribution package in the hosting industry. Currently, CentOS 8 is the latest...
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