Installing nginx on ubuntu server

Installing nginx server on ubuntu. In this lesson, I will show you how to install Nginx on your Linux ubuntu computer. I am using Ubuntu 18 for this lesson. 

Switch to sudo user:

sudo su

Update ubuntu packages:

apt update

Upgrade ubuntu:

apt upgrade

Installing Nginx:

apt install nginx

Checking Nginx version:

nginx -v

Output:

nginx version: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)

Checking Nginx Status:

systemctl status nginx

Another way for checking Nginx status:

systemctl is-active nginx

Output:

active

Browse your computer IP address, Or http://127.0.0.1/ for the local computer.