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.

Step-2

• While extracting the zip file, make sure to extract the folder in C:\.
  

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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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