# Automatically instal the latest nginx wget -O - http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | sudo apt-key add - #Make a backup copy of your current sources.list file sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak #Now copy the following repositories to the end of ` /etc/apt/sources.list` echo "deb http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ trusty nginx" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list echo "deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ trusty nginx" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list #If you want to use the 'stable' branch take: #echo "deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ trusty nginx" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list #echo "deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ trusty nginx" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list #update to get the new repository sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nginx ## Longer way ## ## Manually build and install the latest nginx ## #Install the PCRE library needed by nginx sudo apt-get install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev #Replace by the latest version number found on http://nginx.org/ wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.7.4.tar.gz tar -xvf nginx-1.7.4.tar.gz cd nginx-1.7.4 #These flags make sure to put nginx somewhere that is usuall in PATH and to activate the https module ./configure --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --with-http_ssl_module make sudo make install # Download nginx startup script wget -O init-deb.sh http://library.linode.com/assets/660-init-deb.sh # Move the script to the init.d directory & make executable sudo mv init-deb.sh /etc/init.d/nginx sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx # Add nginx to the system startup sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f nginx defaults # This automatically adds the nginx.conf from below into /etc/init/nginx.conf # If something doesn't work, just copy it manually sudo wget -O /etc/init/nginx.conf https://gist.github.com/Globegitter/685e3739c0f181bda3ec/raw/6ec0def52ed49d29b2f00cae70d28689371d0230/nginx.conf #This will make sure you get the following commands #sudo service nginx start #sudo service nginx stop #sudo service nginx restart #sudo service nginx status ##Now you can modify your nginx.conf in /usr/local/nginx/conf