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Installing nginx on RHEL4 x86_64

Want to use the new kid on the block, nginx, as a server on your old RHEL4 server? Well, guess what, it’s now available in EPEL so it’s incredibly easy.

First add EPEL as a repository on your system. They provide a package to do that:

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm

now install nginx. You’ll need to specify the testing repo. I use yum but the same thing will work with up2date

yum install nginx --enablerepo=epel-testing

Done. Now go edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf to use an IP or port that doesn’t conflict with anything, and:

service nginx start

UPDATE: Updated EPEL RPM link with new version.

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3 Responses to “Installing nginx on RHEL4 x86_64”

  1. Sho Fukamachi Online » Blog Archive » Installing couchdb on RHEL4 Says:
    October 24th, 2007 at 12:04 am

    [...] Solve dependencies. You’ll need EPEL yum install icu [...]

  2. bob Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 2:29 am

    Error getting repository data for epel-testing, repository not found

  3. Sho Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 2:37 am

    Error getting repository data for epel-testing, repository not found

    Well thanks for that useful comment, “bob”. What are you trying to say? EPEL doesn’t exist? It was all a crazy dream?

    Jesus. I used EPEL only an hour or so ago. Check your DNS or something.

    In fact thanks for reminding me to update nginx:

    $ yum install nginx --enablerepo=epel-testing
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
epel                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00     
utterramblings            100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00     
epel-testing              100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00     
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  54 kB    00:00     
epel-testi: ################################################## 209/209
Added 209 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.42 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for nginx to pack into transaction set.
nginx-0.5.35-1.el4.x86_64 100% |=========================| 8.1 kB    00:00     
---> Package nginx.x86_64 0:0.5.35-1.el4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
 
Dependencies Resolved
 
=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
=============================================================================
Updating:
 nginx                   x86_64     0.5.35-1.el4     epel-testing      285 k
 
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)         
Update       1 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         
Total download size: 285 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): nginx-0.5.35-1.el4 100% |=========================| 285 kB    00:00     
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Updating  : nginx                        ######################### [1/2] 
  Cleanup   : nginx                        ######################### [2/2]
 
Updated: nginx.x86_64 0:0.5.35-1.el4
Complete!

    Gee, guess epel-testing does exist after all!

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