How to Install Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04

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Easy Guide: Install Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04 , follow our step-by-step tutorial to install Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04. Get started now!. Nginx is a web server that is still widely used by devops, as well as full stack developers. Its very lightweight advantages and ease of installation are what makes this nginx still very popular with some developers from beginner to middle up.

This time I’m going to give you a simple but baseless tutorial from the beginning of the setup to the end. The operating system I’m using is Ubuntu Server 22.04, if anyone uses another version it should be the same there is no difference, but if there are differences and difficulties please comment below so that we can discuss it. Learn how to install Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04 with this easy guide. Perfect for beginners!

Condition

Before you start, make sure you have a vps that already has an Ubuntu Server operating system, if you haven’t, I recommend buying it here Niagahoster. They have many cheap servers like VPS, Cloud and also Web Hosting.

When you have a server please login as a non-root user.

Step 1 – Install Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04

Actually Nginx or Apache is a default Web Server in Ubuntu Server, but you have to activate first from default repositories package of Ubuntu. You have to update it first and install it like this:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx -y

Step 2 – Adjusting the Firewall

Approximately all ubuntu servers today no longer need to adjust the firewall, but there are still some things that need to be done. If your servers or vps have not done so please do the following:

sudo ufw app list

You will get this output:

Output
Available applications:
  Nginx Full
  Nginx HTTP
  Nginx HTTPS
  OpenSSH

We need to enabled the Nginx HTTP to firewall rule by doing this:

sudo ufw allow 'Nginx HTTP'

Check the firewall status and ouput:

sudo ufw status

Output
Status: active

To                         Action      From
--                         ------      ----
OpenSSH                    ALLOW       Anywhere                  
Nginx HTTP                 ALLOW       Anywhere                  
OpenSSH (v6)               ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)             
Nginx HTTP (v6)            ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)

Step 3 – Check Nginx Status

If your installation is running smooth without an error, when you check the nginx status you will get the output:

sudo service nginx restart

Output
● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2022-03-01 16:08:19 UTC; 3 days ago
     Docs: man:nginx(8)
 Main PID: 2369 (nginx)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 1153)
   Memory: 3.5M
   CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service
           ├─2369 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;
           └─2380 nginx: worker process

Nice!, your web server is absolutely running well, you can check your IP or domain to web browser , or you can check by curl in your command line server:

curl http://<yourdomain.com> #your domain
curl http://<ipaddress> #your IP address

Now you are successfully installed your web server on NGINX, before we move to another content, i’ll give you some cheat sheet to managing the nginx process:

sudo service nginx start # for start nginx
sudo service nginx stop # for stop nginx
sudo service nginx status # for status nginx
sudo service nginx restart # for restart nginx
sudo service nginx status # for status nginx

Finally finished for the nginx installation process, tutorials are not finished, after this you will do the settings for block servers in the Nginx so that your applications can appear well in the browser. Next Tutorial How to Setup Server Blocks NGINX.