Simple instructions to install nginx under windows

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Environment: win10, nginx1.8.1.

1: Download and install

1.1: Download

In here to download the installation package.

1.2: Unzip

Unzip it to a custom directory.

2: Configuration and testing

2.1: Configuration

Because nginx listens on port 80 by default, this port will be used, so the modification nginx.confunder the listen 80;modification is listen 99;as follows:

 server {
     listen       99;
  ...     

2.2: Start

D:\program_files\nginx-1.8.1\nginx-1.8.1>start nginx.exe

D:\program_files\nginx-1.8.1\nginx-1.8.1>netstat -ano | findstr "99"
  TCP    0.0.0.0:99             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       25664

2.3: Access test

The default listening address is localhost, so uselocalhost:

2.4: Other commands

nginx.exe -s stop                   //停止nginx
nginx.exe -s reload                //重新加载nginx
nginx.exe -s quit                     //退出nginx