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Kunguma Sakthivel K
Kunguma Sakthivel K

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How to Set-up NGINX

Now to download and set-up the NGINX, to your local machine for windows

Step-1

  • Go to NGINX website and download the stable version nginx/Windows-1.xx.x in your local machine.
  • The downloaded file will be a zip.

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Step-2

  • While extracting the zip file, make sure to extract the folder in C:\.
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  • Now click on Extract button to extract the files.

Step-3

  • Now go to C:\ and navigate to NGINX folder, inside the folder there will be a file called nginx.exe double click on that.

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  • Now NGINX server is started in localhost:80, because port 80 is default port for http

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  • To verify that the NGINX server is serving the file, go to networks tab in Developer tools and click on localhost, under the Header tab you can see the nginx server.

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  • To stop the NGINX server, simplest way is go to task manager and find the NGINX process than give End Task option to terminate the NGINX server in easiest way.

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