In this tutorial, we will show the manual as well as bash script method to install Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS server. Nginx which is one the most powerful web server widely use in the IT industry. It can easily handle the thousands of simultaneous connections with the small memory usage.

Usage of Nginx:

1. Web Server
2. Caching Server
3. Reverse Proxy,
4. Load Balancer
5. Mail Proxy

In many CDN Network the backend servers are mostly Nginx Server. So by this only you can imagine how dynamic and powerful it is.

Let’s start the installation for which you might be waiting for. We expect you have already installed the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server in your machines.

If you are DevOps aspirant then we will strongly suggest to automate each single bit of your task. For this you can use scripting like bash, python etc and tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc.

We have also created a simple bash script for installing the Nginx its Github link is at the end of this post.

Install Nginx On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Manual Method)

We have checked this method in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, this should work with other Ubuntu versions also. You can share your practical result in comment sections and help others to know.

1. Open the terminal and run the following commands.
2. Install the dependencies

   sudo apt install curl gnupg2 ca-certificates lsb-release ubuntu-keyring -y 

3. Add the signing key

   curl https://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | gpg --dearmor \ | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/nginx-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null 

4. Add the apt repo file

   echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nginx-archive-keyring.gpg] \ http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu `lsb_release -cs` nginx" \| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list 

5. Pin the preference

   echo -e "Package: *\nPin: origin nginx.org\nPin: release o=nginx\nPin-Priority: 900\n" \     | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/99nginx

6. Install the Nginx after updating the apt repo

   sudo apt update -y sudo apt install nginx -y

7. Now restart the nginx service

   sudo systemctl restart nginx

8. Now open the Web Browser and type the URL or IP Address of the Nginx Server. Check you Linux Machine ip address by typing command ip a. In web browser, it will open the Nginx default page.

How To Manage Nginx Service

Once you have installed the Nginx, you will also be interested to know how to stop/start/restart/enable/disable the Nginx Service. So here are the commands.

Stop Nginx Service

Follow the given below command to stop the nginx service.

sudo systemctl stop nginx

Start Nginx Service

To start the nginx service, here is the given below command.

sudo systemctl start nginx

Restart Nginx Service

To restart the nginx service use the following command.

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Enable Nginx Service

When you want the nginx service should be in running state every time after server get restarted/started, you have to ‘enable’ the nginx service with systemctl command.

sudo systemctl enable nginx

Disable Nginx Service

When you want to the nginx service should not start on every restart/start of the server then we should ‘disable’ the nginx service with systemctl command.

sudo systemctl disable nginx

Install Nginx On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS By Using Bash Script

The bash script we have kept in our Github repo from where you can pull and use it. You can find the Github Repo link here.

Download the bash script and give execute permission to the script. chmod 750 install_nginx_ubuntu.sh

Now run the script sh install_nginx_ubuntu.sh . It will install the Nginx.

Now open the web browser and give ip address or FQDN of the Server in address field. It will open the default page.