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yum install gcc
yum install make

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./configure --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --with-http_ssl_module
make
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#!/bin/sh
#
# processname: nginx
# config:      /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
# pidfile:     /usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid
 
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
 
# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
 
# Check that networking is up.
[ "$NETWORKING" = "no" ] && exit 0
 
nginx="/usr/local/sbin/nginx"
prog=$(basename $nginx)
 
NGINX_CONF_FILE="/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf"
 
lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/nginx
 
start() {
    [ -x $nginx ] || exit 5
    [ -f $NGINX_CONF_FILE ] || exit 6
    echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
    daemon $nginx -c $NGINX_CONF_FILE
    retval=$?
    echo
    [ $retval -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile
    return $retval
}
 
stop() {
    echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
    killproc $prog -QUIT
    retval=$?
    echo
    [ $retval -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
    return $retval
}
 
restart() {
    configtest || return $?
    stop
    start
}
 
reload() {
    configtest || return $?
    echo -n $"Reloading $prog: "
    killproc $nginx -HUP
    RETVAL=$?
    echo
}
 
force_reload() {
    restart
}
 
configtest() {
  $nginx -t -c $NGINX_CONF_FILE
}
 
rh_status() {
    status $prog
}
 
rh_status_q() {
    rh_status >/dev/null 2>&1
}
 
case "$1" in
    start)
        rh_status_q && exit 0
        $1
        ;;
    stop)
        rh_status_q || exit 0
        $1
        ;;
    restart|configtest)
        $1
        ;;
    reload)
        rh_status_q || exit 7
        $1
        ;;
    force-reload)
        force_reload
        ;;
    status)
        rh_status
        ;;
    condrestart|try-restart)
        rh_status_q || exit 0
            ;;
    *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|try-restart|reload|force-reload|configtest}"
        exit 2
esac

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/etc/init.d/nginx stop
/etc/init.d/nginx start
/etc/init.d/nginx reload

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/sbin/chkconfig nginx on

“nginx Installation On Amazon Linux AMI”

1. February 19th, 2013 at 19:45 Brian McQuay Says:

   Great post but nginx is in yum so you could skip a lot of the steps and just do ‘yum install nginx’

   
   
2. February 27th, 2013 at 11:52 theglassicon Says:

   That’ s true. It was not available when i wrote it.

   It is still useful if you want to install nginx manually.

   Thank you for your comment.

   
   
3. March 1st, 2013 at 15:25 Dorin Says:

   Thank, it worked for me.

   
   
4. July 12th, 2013 at 23:37 Nanyaks Says:

   True that nginx is in the yum ‘repositories’ now, it is somewhat dated, version 1.2.9 as of the time of writing while the latest stable from nginx.org is 1.4.1…

   The manual install could come in quite handy.

   
   
5. September 4th, 2013 at 19:39 ThumbsUp Says:

   Awesome! This was extremely helpful as the amazon yum repository has an ancient version that does not support chunked transfer encoding, while 1.3.9+ does. Thank you.

   
   
6. April 17th, 2015 at 09:02 Arjun Says:

   Hi
   I am getting some error in step 7, point 4.
   I am unable to start NGINX. Can you help me out please

   
   
7. May 2nd, 2015 at 05:31 Coulter Says:

   I created an Amazon Linux server. How do I do step #9? I want to test the nginx from a web browser. I tried opening a port on the security group that governs the Amazon Linux server. What should I see when I type in the a URL (http://x.x.x.x where x.x.x.x is the IP address that I use with Putty to connect to the machine)?

   
   
8. June 3rd, 2015 at 18:41 Anon Says:

   Just a note that for the last step- didn’t work for me, inorder to make nginx autorun, you need to add chkconfig settings to your init.d bash, see:
   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rhomobile/inh8wk9OlcM

   
   
9. June 12th, 2015 at 22:16 Nicolai Says:

   in Amazon Linux : “sudo yum install nginx”

   
   
10. June 15th, 2015 at 04:42 Vishal Thukral Says:

    After executing last line /sbin/chkconfig nginx on
    I m getting this service nginx does not support chkconfig
    I am using nginx 1.8.0

    
    
11. July 4th, 2015 at 16:43 E.T Says:

    chkconfig will barf when you try to do nginx on. To solve that, just add the following to your /etc/init.d/nginx file (after the /bin/bash line):

    ### BEGIN INIT INFO
    # Provides: nginx
    # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs
    # Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs
    # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
    # Default-Stop: S 0 1 6
    # Short-Description: nginx initscript
    # Description: nginx
    ### END INIT INFO

    
    
12. July 27th, 2015 at 10:57 Abdulhafeth Says:

    Really Great.

    
    
13. December 29th, 2015 at 17:44 Nitin Says:

    Really helpful, sometimes the install from repo creates nuisance for me, Using this manual method for baking nginx based AMI came to my rescue

    
    
14. May 27th, 2016 at 16:16 Jim Says:

    This in Step 7 isn’t working in OS X Terminal / Bash:

    make install

    bash: syntax error near unexpected token `<'

    Logged in as root@ip-172***ec2-user

    
    
15. May 27th, 2016 at 17:20 Jim Says:

    Step 8 fails:

    /usr/local/sbin/nginx

    bash: /usr/local/sbin/nginx: No such file or directory

    I’ve run it in the project root and the server root. Nginx is installed in Step 6 in my project root but changing the URI to there isn’t working either.

    
    
16. August 24th, 2016 at 04:41 CHEER Says:

    This in Step 7 isn’t working in OS X Terminal / Bash:

    make install

    bash: syntax error near unexpected token `<'

    JIM How did you fix it?

    
    
17. December 20th, 2016 at 05:21 Russ Says:

    Use
    > make install
    instead of that long line. It’s a broken markdown showing you unnecessary HTML