Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Setup
  • Install Nginx
  • Check Nginx config path
  • Overide the nginx.conf file
  • Generate self-signed certificate
  • Reference
  • Commands used in the tutorial
    • start nginx
    • get options
    • restart nginx
    • stop nginx
    • print logs
    • restart nginx
    • create folder for nginx certificates
    • create self-signed certificate

Setup

• MacOS

Install Nginx

brew install nginx && nginx -v

Check Nginx config path

nginx -V

👉 /opt/homebrew/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Overide the nginx.conf file

cat nginx.conf >  /opt/homebrew/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Generate self-signed certificate

mkdir nginx-certs &&
cd nginx-certs &&
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout nginx-selfsigned.key -out nginx-selfsigned.crt

Enter some basic information of the certificate that promted

Reference

Commands used in the tutorial

start nginx

nginx

get options

nginx -h

restart nginx

nginx -s reload

stop nginx

nginx -s stop

print logs

tail -f /usr/local/var/log/nginx/access.log

restart nginx

nginx -s reload

create folder for nginx certificates

mkdir ~/nginx-certs cd ~/nginx-certs

create self-signed certificate

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout nginx-selfsigned.key -out nginx-selfsigned.crt