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How to install Nginx on OpenSUSE

How to install NGINX on OpenSUSE

How to install NGINX on OpenSUSE

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Nginx on OpenSUSE. Free, open-source, high-performance HTTP and reverse proxy server Nginx—pronounced "engine X"—is in charge of managing the traffic on some of the busiest websites on the Internet. Both as a standalone web server and as a reverse proxy for Apache and other web servers, Nginx has several uses.

Nginx has a reduced memory footprint per connection and can manage many more concurrent connections than Apache.

Prerequisites

  • A super user or any normal user with SUDO privileges.

  • Internet enabled OpenSUSE server

Steps to install Nginx on OpenSUSE

Step 1: Update your server to install the latest patches.

zypper update -y

Step 2: Install the Nginx on your server.

zypper install nginx -y

Installing Nginx on Opensuse

Step 3: Start and enable the server to get start using the Nginx server

systemctl enable --now nginx

Enabling the server

Enabling the server

Step 4: Allow the http and https port on your OS firewall

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=https
firewall-cmd --reload

add http port in firewalld

Add http port in firewalld

Step 5: Now, create a test page to test your installation of nginx webserver.

echo "<h1> Greetings from Microhost Cloud </h1> >> /srv/www/htdocs/index.html

Step 6: Open your browser and access your index.html page.

http://<server-ip>

Successfully installed apache2 on OpenSUSE

Successfully installed apache2 on OpenSUSE

And this is how, you have learnt how to install Nginx on OpenSUSE.