• Operating system: CentOS 7.4
• Nginx version: nginx-1.14.1

Different from JRE and Tomcat, nginx is not only decompressed, but also compiled and installed. The specific steps are as follows:

I. preparation environment

./configure: error: the HTTP gzip module requires the zlib library.
You can either disable the module by using --without-http_gzip_module
option, or install the zlib library into the system, or build the zlib library
statically from the source with nginx by using --with-zlib=<path> option.

1. gcc (GNU compiler suite)

    [root[@xxxxxxxx](https://my.oschina.net/u/1036001) ~]# rpm -q gcc
    gcc-4.8.5-16.el7.x86_64
   

   If no output, install

    [root[@xxxxxxxx](https://my.oschina.net/u/1036001) ~]# yum install -y gcc
   

2. PCRE(Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) Perl Library

    [root[@xxxxxxxx](https://my.oschina.net/u/1036001) ~]# rpm -qa |grep pcre
    pcre-8.32-17.el7.x86_64
    pcre-devel-8.32-17.el7.x86_64
   

   If there is no corresponding installation, such as pcre-devel-8.32-17.el7.x86_, execute

    [root[@xxxxxxxx](https://my.oschina.net/u/1036001) ~]# yum install -y pcre-devel
   

   If both are missing, execute

    [root[@xxxxxxxx](https://my.oschina.net/u/1036001) ~]# yum install -y pcre pcre-devel
   

   And so on

3. zlib Library

    [root@xxxxxxxx ~]# rpm -qa |grep zlib
    zlib-devel-1.2.7-17.el7.x86_64
    zlib-1.2.7-17.el7.x86_64
   

   Which installation is missing

    [root@xxxxxxxx ~]# yum install -y zlib zlib-devel
   

4. openssl

    [root@xxxxxxxx ~]# rpm -qa |grep openssl
    openssl-libs-1.0.2k-12.el7.x86_64
    openssl-devel-1.0.2k-12.el7.x86_64
    openssl-1.0.2k-12.el7.x86_64
   

   Which installation is missing

    [root@xxxxxxxx ~]# yum install -y openssl openssl-devel 
   

II. Decompression and installation

1. decompression

   In the directory where nginx-1.14.1.tar.gz is located, execute the unzip command. The unzip directory is different from the installation directory. Do not mind the unzip location

    [root@xxxxxxxx ~]# tar -zxvf nginx-1.14.1.tar.gz
   

2. . / configure generate Makefile

    [root@xxxxxxxx ~]# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nginx
    checking for OS
     + Linux 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 x86_64
    checking for C compiler ... found
     + using GNU C compiler
     + gcc version: 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16) (GCC) 
    checking for gcc -pipe switch ... found
    checking for -Wl,-E switch ... found		Configuration summary
    ----------------
    //More than 100 checking for
    ----------------
    checking for PCRE JIT support ... found
    checking for zlib library ... found
    creating objs/Makefile
   
    Configuration summary
      + using system PCRE library
      + OpenSSL library is not used
      + using system zlib library
   
      nginx path prefix: "/usr/local/nginx"
      nginx binary file: "/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx"
      nginx modules path: "/usr/local/nginx/modules"
      nginx configuration prefix: "/usr/local/nginx/conf"
      nginx configuration file: "/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf"
      nginx pid file: "/usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid"
      nginx error log file: "/usr/local/nginx/logs/error.log"
      nginx http access log file: "/usr/local/nginx/logs/access.log"
      nginx http client request body temporary files: "client_body_temp"
      nginx http proxy temporary files: "proxy_temp"
      nginx http fastcgi temporary files: "fastcgi_temp"
      nginx http uwsgi temporary files: "uwsgi_temp"
      nginx http scgi temporary files: "scgi_temp"
   

   If. / configure: error: to check and solve the corresponding reason, execute. / configure --prefix=/usr/local/nginx again

3. make && make install

    [root@xxxxxxxx nginx-1.14.1]# make && make install
   

   After the installation, you can see the directory / usr/local/nginx, execute the startup of / usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx, and you can access it.

    [root@xxxxxxxx nginx]# /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
   

The following configuration will be introduced in the next blog