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-====== Nginx HTTP Server ======
-**General Information**
-Installation and configuration of Nginx web server.
-**Checklist**
-  * Distro(s): Enterprise Linux 6/7
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-====== Installation ======
-Installation of Nginx can be completed via repo (Official Nginx, EPEL, or Software Collections) or compiling.
-===== Repo: Official Nginx =====
-[[http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html|Nginx.org]] has pre-built packages. You can select mainline (newer) or stable.
-Versions as of 04/13/2016:
-  * Mainline: 1.9.14
-  * Stable: 1.8.1
-  * Legacy: 1.6.3 and below
-  - Add a nginx repo file
-    * Stable Repo:<code bash>vim /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo
-[nginx]
-name=nginx repo
-baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/centos/7/$basearch/
-gpgcheck=0
-enabled=1</code>
-    * Mainline Repo:<code bash>vim /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo
-[nginx]
-name=nginx repo
-baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/centos/7/$basearch/
-gpgcheck=0
-enabled=1</code>
-  - Install<code bash>yum install nginx</code>
-===== Repo: EPEL =====
-Versions as of 04/13/2016
-  * CentOS 7.2: Nginx 1.6.3
-Procedure
-  * Install the [[linux_wiki:repos#epel|EPEL repo]]
-  * Install Nginx<code bash>yum install nginx</code>
-===== Repo: Software Collections =====
-Versions as of 04/13/2016:
-  * nginx 1.4 (legacy)
-  * nginx 1.6 (legacy)
-  * nginx 1.8 (stable)
-  - Add the [[linux_wiki:repos#software_collections|software collections repo]].
-  - Install<code bash>yum install rh-nginx18</code>
-  - Enable the software collection<code bash>scl enable rh-nginx18 bash</code>
-    - Run signal commands (nginx -s signal) as normal from the Operation section below
-===== Compile and Install =====
-Building from source is usually done for specific functionality and is more time consuming.
-  - Install pre-reqs<code bash>yum install gcc pcre-devel zlib-devel</code>
-  - [[http://nginx.org/en/download.html|Download]] a tarball (Example: Stable)<code bash>wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.8.1.tar.gz</code>
-  - Unarchive/unpack<code bash>tar -zxvf nginx-1.8.1.tar.gz</code>
-  - Change into directory<code bash>cd nginx-1.8.1/</code>
-  - Configure nginx<code bash>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nginx</code>
-    - Available configuration options: http://nginx.org/en/docs/configure.html
-  - Compile<code bash>make</code>
-  - Install<code bash>make install</code>
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-====== Configuration ======
-  * Main Config: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
-    * Alt Main (Compiled): /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
-    * Alt Main (Software Collections): /etc/opt/rh/rh-nginx18/nginx/nginx.conf
-  * Additional Config: /etc/nginx/conf.d/
-    * Alt Additional Config (Compiled): No default
-    * Alt Additional Config (Software Collections): /etc/opt/rh/rh-nginx18/nginx/conf.d/
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-====== Operation ======
-Controlling the nginx web server.
-Nginx can be controlled via the system's service commands or nginx executable signals.
-  * Main nginx executable: /usr/sbin/nginx
-    * Alt main nginx executable (Compiled): /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
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-==== Enable on Boot ====
-  * Autostart the nginx web server upon system startup
-<code bash>systemctl enable nginx</code>
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-==== Start ====
-  * Evaluate config files; if syntax is ok, start
-<code bash>systemctl start nginx</code>
-or
-<code bash>nginx</code>
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-==== Stop ====
-  * Stop the nginx processes now
-  * Kills current sessions
-<code bash>systemctl stop nginx</code>
-or
-<code bash>nginx -s stop</code>
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-==== Reload Config ====
-  * Equivalent to Apache httpd's "graceful" restart
-  * Check syntax
-    * if ok, then spawn new workers with new config and signal old workers to shutdown after current requests are complete
-    * if NOT ok, continue using old configuration
-<code bash>systemctl reload nginx</code>
-or
-<code bash>nginx -s reload</code>
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-==== Restart ====
-  * Kill worker processes immediately
-<code bash>systemctl restart nginx</code>
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-==== Graceful Stop ====
-  * Equivalent to Apache httpd's "graceful-stop"
-  * Wait for worker processes to finish serving current requests, then stop.
-  * Do not accept new requests
-<code bash>nginx -s quit</code>
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