Installing & Using Nginx HTTP (and Reverse Proxy) Server in Ubuntu LTS

nginx is a great alternative to apache2, it is better to handle static web pages and files. another one is lighttpd which is optimized for long-time keep-alive (a lot of connections). Install in Ubuntu # 18.04 LTS # sudo apt update && \ sudo apt install nginx && \ systemctl status nginx ref: digitalocean 10.04 LTS # sudo -s apt-get install gcc g++; wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pcre/pcre-8.10.tar.bz2 (seems hard-coded version in nginx v1. ...