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Handling of static files, index files, and autoindexing; open file descriptor cache;
Accelerated reverse proxying without caching; simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
Accelerated support without caching of remote FastCGI servers; simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
Modular architecture. Filters include gzipping, byte ranges, chunked responses, XSLT, and SSI. Multiple SSI inclusions within a single page can be processed in parallel if they are handled by FastCGI or proxied servers.
SSL and TLS SNI support.

Mail proxy server features:

User redirection to IMAP/POP3 backend using an external HTTP authentication server;
User authentication using an external HTTP authentication server and connection redirection to internal SMTP backend;
Authentication methods:
POP3: USER/PASS, APOP, AUTH LOGIN/PLAIN/CRAM-MD5;
IMAP: LOGIN, AUTH LOGIN/PLAIN/CRAM-MD5;
SMTP: AUTH LOGIN/PLAIN/CRAM-MD5;
SSL support;
STARTTLS and STLS support

Other HTTP features:

name- and IP-based virtual servers;
keep-alive and pipelined connections support;
flexible configuration;
reconfiguration and online upgrade without interruption of the client processing;
access log formats, bufferred log writing, and quick log rotation;
4xx-5xx error codes redirection;
rewrite module;
access control based on client IP address and HTTP Basic authentication;
PUT, DELETE, MKCOL, COPY and MOVE methods;
FLV streaming;
speed limitation;
limitation of simultaneous connections or requests from one address.

Experimental features:

embedded perl.

At the time of writing, the latest stable version is 0.6.35 and if you need more information check nginx main site http://nginx.net/

Preparing your system

First letus install some required packages

Download latest stable version from here or using the following command

Now you have nginx-0.6.35.tar.gz file unpack this file using the following command

Now you need to start installation so for this you need to check what options you want to use from here http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxInstallOptions

In this installation we are using only two options --sbin-path and --with-http_ssl_module

After completion of installation you should see similar to the following details which are very useful make a note of them

Start Nginx using the following command

Now you can navigate your web browser and point the follow url

You should see welcome to nginx message

If you want nginx startup script download from here in to the /etc/init.d directory

Now you need to make scipt executable

Now we have the base script prepared, we need to add it to the default run levels using the following command

From now you can use the following commands to start,stop and restart nginx.By default nginx will not provide this scripts