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Mac OS X nginx installation from source
# download PCRE and nginx source
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/src
cd /usr/local/src
# copy PCRE to directory
# eg. cp /tmp/pcre-8.20.tar.gz /usr/local/src/
tar xzvf pcre-8.20.tar.gz
cd pcre-8.20
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make && sudo make install
cd ..
# copy nginx to directory
tar xzvf nginx-1.0.11.tar.gz
cd nginx-1.0.11
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-http_ssl_module
make && sudo make install
# edit your PATH variable, make sure it include /usr/local/sbin
vim ~/.profile
. ~/.profile
which nginx
# start nginx
sudo nginx
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