Thread: How To: Install Nginx on cPanel - The Easy Way

The bright people over at http://www.nginxcp.com have come up with a wonderful little tool for working with Nginx. It integrates a admin panel into WHM so you can stop and restart Nginx, recreate the vhost config, view the Nginx Logs and check apache.

Also it autoconfigures WHM and Apache for use with Nginx by changing apache from listening on port 80 to port 8081.

For those who don't know what Nginx is its a caching proxy that will cache static content such as images and html files and serves them up without having to access Apache for the content thus improving speed, memory usage and processor overhead. All dynamic content such as php, java and video are proxied to Apache for processing.

So if you have a site that is slow you might benefit from Nginx serving up all the static content and only using Apache to process the php files..

Nginx Admin (Stable version) v2.6

Changelog:
Below is a detailed list of all the changes in this release:

1- Feature: Based on nginx 1.0.4 Stable See this link for more details( http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES )
2- New script added /scripts/rebuildvhosts
3- Installer updated for cPanel 11.30

Install Instructions:

Code:

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://nginxcp.com/nginxadmin2.6-stable.tar
tar xf nginxadmin2.6-stable.tar
cd publicnginx
./nginxinstaller install

Note:
As Its a major release so if you have previously installed the any version of the nginx, please uninstall and then perform the installation.

Uninstall Instruction:

Code:

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://nginxcp.com/nginxadmin2.6-stable.tar
tar xf nginxadmin2.6-stable.tar
cd publicnginx
./nginxinstaller uninstall

All Done.. Login to WHM and check out the admin interface.

hello,


after I followed the instructions this is what I got:

root@ns1 [/usr/local/src/publicnginx]# ./nginxinstaller install
/usr/local/src/publicnginx
Welcome to the Nginx Admin installer......Starting Install
Generating vhosts...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/scripts/createvhosts.py", line 2, in ?
import yaml
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PyYAML-3.10-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/yaml/__init__.py", line 26
SyntaxError: 'yield' not allowed in a 'try' block with a 'finally' clause
Installing WHM interface...
deploying booster rockets
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/src/publicnginx/nginxinstaller2", line 9, in ?
import createvhosts
File "/usr/local/src/publicnginx/createvhosts.py", line 2, in ?
import yaml
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PyYAML-3.10-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/yaml/__init__.py", line 26
SyntaxError: 'yield' not allowed in a 'try' block with a 'finally' clause

First I tried with Nginx Admin (Stable version) v2.6 and I get the same errors. I uninstaled it and I tried with Nginx Admin (Stable version) v2.8

In my whm at Plugins I am able to see Nginx Admin (v2.8 Stable version) interface. BUT Nginx Service Status: Down.

I press Restart . It sais :
Restarting Nginx...

Nginx Restarted Successfully.

Done...

If I came from Plugins to Nginx Admin i see again Nginx Service Status: Down.

Please tell me what should I do ?

Thanks!

I already have accelerator will it be OK to install this one?

No you only need one.

If someone looking for alternative methods of Nginx installation on cPanel server, please feel free to check my review at Install Nginx on cPanel – Stop cPanel server load

Hi Guys,

First upon I would like to thank you for your great work!

I was keep using the same script for installing Nginx on our servers. But last week I go ahead and updated the cpanel version to 11.32. Here come the problems, the script stopped working. While I checked the script I could notice that you guys are given the parameter as cpanel version ==11.30.. How can I overcome this situation,, can I update the script to > 11.30 Or you guys are specifically designed the script for this version. Please advise.

Yours faithfully,

Unni.

I would try the newer version

Nginx Admin (Stable version) v3.3 released | NginxCP.com

The one linked to in the main post is pretty old now.

Hello,

Special Thanks to FLDataTeK.

Great! support team. I really love you guys. Now I have successfully installed Nginx on Cpanel version 11.32.

Now the issue is my manager need to hide NGINX label on browsers as he doesn't like to show up the clients and world its handling by nginx

How can I fix this? can you help me on this too.

Regards,

Unni