How to install NGINX on Alpine Linux?

Nginx is a lightweight and high performance web server/reverse/email(IMAP/POP3) proxy.

Basic features

• Static file server, indexes and auto-indexing.
• Reverse proxy with caching options.
• Load balancing.
• Fault tolerance.
• Support of HTTP and HTTP2 over SSL.
• Support for FastCGI with caching options.
• Virtual hosts based on name and/or IP address.
• Support for authentication.
• IPv6 compatible
• gzip compression.

You can see all NGINX features at:

• NGINX Site
• Wikipedia

Readings interest:

• How to install and configure NGINX as reverse proxy
• How to install NGINX on NetBSD?
• Cómo instalar Apache en Ubuntu 20.04
• How to install Apache web server on Android?
• Install and configure Apache HTTP server
• Instalar SSL Let’s Encrypt en Debian

Install

# apk add nginx
fetch https://ams.edge.kernel.org/alpine/v3.14/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
(1/4) Installing pcre (8.44-r0)
(2/4) Installing nginx (1.20.1-r3)
Executing nginx-1.20.1-r3.pre-install
Executing nginx-1.20.1-r3.post-install
(3/4) Installing nginx-openrc (1.20.1-r3)
(4/4) Installing nginx-vim (1.20.1-r3)
Executing busybox-1.33.1-r3.trigger
OK: 264 MiB in 72 packages

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