Install NGINX on FreeBSD

Installing NGINX

Install NGINX
```
 $ pkg install nginx
```
Create folder
```
 $ mkdir /data/www
```
Find configuration file nginx.conf
It’s either in /usr/local/nginx/conf, /etc/nginx or /usr/local/etc/nginx
Edit conf file, comment out everything then add a new server block
```
 http {
     server {
     }
 }
```

Add a location into the server block

 location / {
   root /data/www;
 }
 location /images/ {
   root /data;
 }

Create a basic html file in /data/www

<html>
<head></head>
<body><h1>hello NGINX</h1></body>
</html>

Posted

February 3, 2016

malcolm

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