Install NGINX in MAC

Open terminal and execute the commmand.

brew install nginx

nginx is installed at /usr/local/etc/nginx

Once the installation is successful, Execute below command to start nginx server.

sudo nginx

$sudo nginx
Password:
$
$
$ps -eaf | grep nginx
    0 26617     1   0 10:14AM ??         0:00.00 nginx: master process nginx
   -2 26618 26617   0 10:14AM ??         0:00.00 nginx: worker process
188003303 26697  2000   0 10:14AM ttys002    0:00.00 grep nginx

How to test whether nginx started successfully or not?

Open the url ‘http://localhost:8080/’ in browser, you can see below kind of screen.

How to stop nginx server?

sudo nginx -s stop

Location of nginx configuration file

/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Note

To have launchd start nginx now and restart at login:

  brew services start nginx

Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run:

  Nginx

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