How To Install nginx on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nginx on Rocky Linux 8. nginx is A high performance web server and reverse proxy server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nginx on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `nginx`

Nginx is a web server and a reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols, with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low memory usage.

We can use yum or dnf to install nginx on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nginx.

Install nginx on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install nginx using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nginx

Install nginx on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install nginx using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nginx

How To Uninstall nginx on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the nginx package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nginx

nginx Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/logrotate.d/nginx
/etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf
/etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf.default
/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params
/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params.default
/etc/nginx/koi-utf
/etc/nginx/koi-win
/etc/nginx/mime.types
/etc/nginx/mime.types.default
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf.default
/etc/nginx/scgi_params
/etc/nginx/scgi_params.default
/etc/nginx/uwsgi_params
/etc/nginx/uwsgi_params.default
/etc/nginx/win-utf
/usr/bin/nginx-upgrade
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/a6da8eadeb05c036be9b4ea9ec6aecde0fcc35
/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service
/usr/lib64/nginx/modules
/usr/sbin/nginx
/usr/share/doc/nginx
/usr/share/doc/nginx/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/nginx/README
/usr/share/doc/nginx/README.dynamic
/usr/share/licenses/nginx
/usr/share/licenses/nginx/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/nginx.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/nginx-upgrade.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/nginx.8.gz
/usr/share/nginx/html/404.html
/usr/share/nginx/html/50x.html
/usr/share/nginx/html/index.html
/usr/share/nginx/html/nginx-logo.png
/usr/share/nginx/html/poweredby.png
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect/nginx.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/indent/nginx.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/nginx.vim
/var/lib/nginx
/var/lib/nginx/tmp
/var/log/nginx

References

nginx website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nginx on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.