Can I Install Nginx on MAC OS ?

By admin ( January 25, 2012 at 6:08 am) · Filed under Mac OS, ,

Yes, you can. Especially on Mac OS X 10.7.1 Lion.
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Then copy and paste these code in terminal window

#!/bin/bash

## DOWNLOADS
sudo curl -OL h ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.13.tar.gz > /usr/local/src/pcre-8.13.tar.gz
sudo curl -OL h http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.1.4.tar.gz > /usr/local/src/nginx-1.1.4.tar.gz

## Install PCRE
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/src
cd /usr/local/src
tar xvzf pcre-8.13.tar.gz
cd pcre-8.13
./configure –prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

## Ready install NGINX on Mac OS Lion
tar xvzf nginx-1.1.4.tar.gz
cd nginx-1.1.4
./configure –prefix=/usr/local –with-http_ssl_module
make
sudo make install

## Start Nginx
sudo /usr/local/sbin/nginx

Now you have nginx in Your Mac OS Lion.

 

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