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‎Why Nginx?: Apache is no longer web server software, but an organization. Clarify/correct.

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‎Appendix 2: Uninstall

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‎Nginx Installation from Source Code

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‎Nginx Installation from Source Code

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‎Nginx Installation from Source Code

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‎Installing Nginx Using the Debian Package

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‎Installing Nginx Using the Debian Package

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‎Installing Nginx Using the Debian Package

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‎Installing the Debian Package

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‎Nginx Installation

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 == Why Nginx? ==
-By far the most of the world's websites are hosted on [http://httpd.apache.org/ Apache]. If your Pi runs Debian, you ''could'' install Apache just using the normal "sudo apt-get install apache2", and the hard work would be done for you.  However, the result may be less than satisfactory because Apache is intended to run on full-sized servers and is a bit of a hog on resources.
+By far the most of the world's websites are hosted on [http://httpd.apache.org/ Apache's] httpd. If your Pi runs Debian, you ''could'' install httpd just using the normal "sudo apt-get install apache2", and the hard work would be done for you. However, the result may be less than satisfactory because httpd is intended to run on full-sized servers and is a bit of a hog on resources.
 However, there are several good light-weight alternatives: [[RPi webserver]] covers installing [http://www.lighttpd.net/ Lighttpd], but a far more widely-used server is '''[http://nginx.com/ Nginx]''' ([http://nginx.org/ additional resources]). You can find plenty of resources comparing these two and others so I won't repeat the factors here to help you decide.

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   sudo service nginx stop
   # Our compiled-from-source files:
-  sudo rm -rf /etc/nginx /usr/sbin/nginx* /usr/local/nginx /var/run/nginx.pid /var/log/nginx
+  sudo rm -rf /etc/nginx /etc/default/nginx /usr/sbin/nginx* /usr/local/nginx /var/run/nginx.pid /var/log/nginx
   # The Debian scripts that came with the apt-get version:
   sudo rm -rf /etc/init.d/nginx /etc/logrotate.d/nginx /var/lib/update-rc.d/nginx
   # Your static content:
   sudo rm -rf /var/www

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	From your Pi's terminal, firstly we'll install the obsolete packaged version because it creates some useful startup scripts for us, then we'll remove it again. (If you did the package installation in the preceding section, you won't need to do this again. Just remove /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list to clean up, then <code>sudo apt-get update</code>.)		From your Pi's terminal, firstly we'll install the obsolete packaged version because it creates some useful startup scripts for us, then we'll remove it again. (If you did the package installation in the preceding section, you won't need to do this again. Just remove /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list to clean up, then <code>sudo apt-get update</code>.)
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	sudo apt-get -y install nginx		sudo apt-get -y install nginx

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 == Nginx Installation from Source Code ==
-From your Pi's terminal, firstly we'll install the obsolete packaged version because it creates some useful startup scripts for us, then we'll remove it again.
+From your Pi's terminal, firstly we'll install the obsolete packaged version because it creates some useful startup scripts for us, then we'll remove it again. (If you did the package installation in the preceding section, you won't need to do this again. Just remove /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list to clean up, then <code>sudo apt-get update</code>.)
   sudo apt-get -y install nginx
   sudo apt-get -y remove nginx
   sudo apt-get clean
 Now grab the necessary Debian compilation utils and libraries.

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   sudo apt-get -y remove nginx
   sudo apt-get clean
 Now grab the necessary Debian compilation utils and libraries.

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   sudo apt-get install nginx
-This raises a problem with un-authenticated packages - you can either accept this warning, or if you prefer install from the source code instead, as described next.
+This raises a warning about un-authenticated packages - you can either accept this warning, or if you prefer install from the source code instead, as described next.
 == Nginx Installation from Source Code ==

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 The default Debian package is the wrong one - it's v0.7, way behind the latest stable release. So the following will enable the latest (currently v1.2.2) version to be fetched instead:
- sudo -s
+  cd
-  cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
   echo "deb http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ squeeze nginx" >nginx.list
   echo "deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ squeeze nginx" >> nginx.list
-  apt-get update
+  sudo mv nginx.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d
-  apt-get install nginx
+ sudo apt-get update
 This raises a problem with un-authenticated packages - you can either accept this warning, or if you prefer install from the source code instead, as described next.

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 However, there are several good light-weight alternatives: [[RPi webserver]] covers installing [http://www.lighttpd.net/ Lighttpd], but a far more widely-used server is '''[http://nginx.com/ Nginx]''' ([http://nginx.org/ additional resources]). You can find plenty of resources comparing these two and others so I won't repeat the factors here to help you decide.
-== Installing the Debian Package ==
+== Installing Nginx Using the Debian Package ==
 The default Debian package is the wrong one - it's v0.7, way behind the latest stable release. So the following will enable the latest (currently v1.2.2) version to be fetched instead: