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Free Nginx E-Book

Here’s a cool freebie for you web server admins out there. Right now, you can download a free copy of the O’Reilly® Nginx Cookbook from here:

The Complete NGINX Cookbook

It’s a great resource for beginners and advanced users alike. Nothing is free you say?? Okay, you do have to supply your name, email address, etc. so that they can spam your inbox. Set your junk mail filters accordingly.

 

 

 

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How-to install Nginx on Amazon Linux 2

*This is a quick how-to for installing Nginx. If you need more insight into launching Amazon instances, please visit the Amazon documentation page: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts.html.

 

First, login into your  Amazon Linux 2  instance. Amazon maintains its’ own repository (amazon-linx-extras) of software packages for quick convenient installation on it’s instances.

To view what is available in the repo enter amazon-linux-extras list in the terminal window.

As you can see, there are a number of commonly used software packages available and nginx1.12 is fourth on the list.

 

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Next, we’ll run: sudo amazon-linux-extras install nginx1.12 (you must use the version number otherwise the install will fail). Once installed, you will see a screen similar to the one below. Nginx is now enabled in the repo and installed on my instance.

 

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Now, we’ll verify the installation. At the prompt run: nginx –v and you’ll see that the server is now running version 1.12.2:

 

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We can also browse to the default web page by using public DNS name:

 

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