How to install Nginx webserver on Mac OS X

Before start you should ensure that you have Command Line Tools installed in your mac. It is part of XCode. You should have it installed and updated.

Install Command Line Tools if not exist

xcode-select --install

brew tap homebrew nginx brew install nginx

Test Installation

## Start Nginx

sudo nginx 

## Check if Nginx is running on 8080 port

curl -IL http://127.0.0.1:8080

Output should look like this

HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
Server: nginx/1.12.1 
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2021 22:11:39 GMT 
Content-Type: text/html 
Content-Length: 138  
Last-Modified: Tue, 10 Feb 2021 21:49:46 GMT 

Connection: keep-alive ETag: “5a07545a-8a”

Accept-Ranges: bytes

Also you can open http://127.0.0.1:8080 in your browser. You should get the next page

Nginx installed successful.

Follow me on Instagram

  That’s it for now. 

If you liked this article, then please subscribe to my YouTube Channel for video tutorials.

You can also find me on Twitter and Facebook.