How to install Nginx on Mac

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1 Install Homebrew
2 After Homebrew installs, add it to your PATH
3 Verify installation
4 Now install Nginx via Homebrew
5 To start nginx now and restart at login:
6 Open nginx default page
7 status
8 Restart nginx
9 Stop nginx
10 Check Syntax
11 where your config file is?

Install Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
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After Homebrew installs, add it to your PATH

  • M1 Mac 
echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> ~/.zprofile
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
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  • Intel Mac

Add Homebrew to your shell (for Intel Macs)

echo 'eval "$(/usr/local/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> ~/.zprofile
eval "$(/usr/local/bin/brew shellenv)"
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Verify installation

brew --version
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Now install Nginx via Homebrew

brew install nginx
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  • /usr/local/var/www
/usr/local/var/www
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To start nginx now and restart at login:

brew services start nginx
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Open nginx default page

http://localhost:8080
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status

brew services list
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Restart nginx

brew services restart nginx
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Stop nginx

brew services stop nginx
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Check Syntax

nginx -t
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where your config file is?

brew info nginx
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