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Nginx (pronounced as “Engine-X”) is an open source web server that is often used as reverse proxy or HTTP cache. It is available for Linux for free. In this tutorial we’ll install Nginx and set up a basic site. Installing NGINX on Mac. There are following steps to install the Nginx on Mac OS: Step 1: Download Homebrew. To install the Nginx on Mac OS, Homebrew must be installed on the system. Homebrew is a package manager for Mac operating system that allows us to install various Unix applications easily.

For Linux, njs modulespackages can be used:

• nginx-module-njs — njsdynamic modules
• nginx-module-njs-dbg — debug symbols for thenginx-module-njs package

After package installation, njs dynamic modules need to be loaded with theload_moduledirective:

or

The repositorywith njs sources can be cloned with the following command:(requires Mercurial client):

Then the modules should be compiled fromnginx root directory using the--add-module configuration parameter:

The modules can also be built asdynamic:

To build only njs command-line utility, run./configure and make njs commandsfrom njs root directory.The utility is available as ./build/njs.

Install with brew

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Use brew to install the nginx with command:

After install run:

Testing

Open Navigator it by going to URL:

Configuration

The default place of nginx.conf on Mac after installing with brew is:

Changing the default port (8080)

We shall change it to 80. First stop the nginx server if it is running by:

Update thanks @zue666, @pixel67
if apache is running must also stop
##sudo apachectl stop

Then open nginx.conf with (example vim):

and change the:

to:

Save configuration and relaunch nginx

Testing

Open Navigator it by going to URL:

Update: thanks @pablohenrique
* ERROR 403 Forbidden - *
dont worry, some other application is already using port 80. probably be skype.

1 Solution 1: Change Skype port in Skype > Preferences > advanced
2 Solution 2: No change server { listen to 80.

That means that nginx will use port 8080 instead of 80. To access it I would use this url
http://localhost:8080.

Changing the path of defualt web location

he nginx html folder (brew install only) is by the defult in:

Note: change ** 1.2.3 ** to your nginx version.

The defualt path configuration:

To let say Users/to/www:

After change relaunch nginix server and nginx is now serving pages from your custom folder!

enjoy!