Install Nginx on Mac OS X

Run Nginx locally and play with basic configs

Install with brew

First of all your brew will run updates

Brew updates

Nevermind if you get an error, rerun the command.

Check your nginx installed

nginx -h

You should see

Nginx help

To check you nginx version

nginx -v

Nginx version

Run nginx

sudo nginx

Check that it runs

ps aux | grep nginx

You should see something like

Check Nginx process

Or simply in your browser go

• here#1 http://localhost:8080
• here#2 http://127.0.0.1:8080

what is the same.

Stop nginx

sudo nginx -s stop

Nginx configs

Basic configuration file is here /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf.

So you can vim it or subl.

vim /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
subl /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

That’s mine initial nginx.conf

Nginx configuration file

What Next?

You can read how to config multiple sites on your local here.

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