HOW TO START AND STOP A NGINX SERVER FROM MY KALI LINUX VM

#nginx #vm #linux #devops

As I was revisiting my notes about Linux processes I decided to post this about a simple setup for a Nginx server from my Kali Linux Virtual Machine.

Prerequisites

Have a virtualised environment i.e Virtual Box and your preferred Virtual OS, I am using Kali Linux on my Oracle Virtualbox.
A command line interface/terminal.
Sudo access(never run your services as root.

Check if NGINX is installed
kali> sudo apt list ¦ grep -t nginx
If not available, download using
kali>sudo apt-get install nginx

Find the running processes
a= all processes, u=user that it belongs to, x=processes not executed
kali> sudo ps -aux

Find if nginx is up and running
kali > sudo ps -aux ¦ grep nginx

Start up the nginx server
kali> sudo systemctl start nginx

Review if your nginx server is up and running
kali> sudo systemctl status nginx

Review if your nginx server is up and running on a tab
First get your machine's ip address
kali> sudo ip address
-Paste your ip address on a terminal and search it, if the page is up and running, it will display a generic welsome page.

Stop up the nginx server
kali> sudo systemctl stop nginx

That's it, look up for more updates as I learn how to launch more complex servers.