Installing NGINX on VPS

This tutorial continues from previous one

NGINX:

Nginx is a web server software which is very popular for handling high traffic and security. It's a lightweight , powerful web server and reverse proxy server. Also it uses for email proxy. Nginx consumes less RAM than other web server softwares. It's ideal web server for CMS (content management system) specially for WordPress because it has a better caching ability and very fast.

Procedure:

1. Turn off Apache web server at first.

/etc/init.d/apache2 stop

2. Remove apache webserver from auto start script so that it could not start again

update-rc.d -f apache2 remove

3. Install Nginx with APC (Alternative PHP Cache:-will be used later for improving site's caching performance).

apt-get install nginx php-apc

4. Start NGINX

/etc/init.d/nginx start

or 

service nginx start

5.Install Nginx plugin for virtualmin

apt-get install webmin-virtualmin-nginx

If your nginx configuration file is single then follow the following steps:

1. Go to Webmin tab > Servers> Nginx webserver & click "Module config"

2. Enter the configuration like below image & click save

3. Click "Apply Nginx Configurtion.


You have successfully installed NGINX on your debian VPS.