installing nginx on centos should be straightforward

[Steve Holdoway]

On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 17:27 -0500, mottwsc wrote:
> I have set up a virtual server with a LAMP stack (Centos 6.3) and am now
> trying to install nginx to use as a proxy server.  I have been told to
> download from sudo rpm -Uvh
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm and
> have done so prior to trying to install nginx.  However, something was wrong
> with this because when I tried to install nginx (sudo yum install nginx),
> there were a number of packages that were skipped due to dependency
> problems.  When I tried to start nginx, it could not find the files.
> 
> Given that nginx is a well-used server, this has to be easier than what I am
> encountering.  Does anyone know the correct commands to set this up so that
> nginx can install?
> 
> Thanks.
It is. If you're going to install nginx from a repo, why not use theirs?

rpm -Uvh
http://nginx.org/packages/centos/6/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm

then

yum install nginx

( next question... why only use it as a proxy server? )

Steve
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