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

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

systemctl enable --now nginx

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

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>

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