Quick steps to install Nginx on Ubuntu Linux

Quickly setup nginx server

Step 1: Update your apt package manager by running command: sudo apt update,

Step 2: Now lets run the command sudo apt install nginx,

# sudo apt install nginx 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core iproute2 libatm1 libbsd0 libcap2-bin libelf1
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   ...
  libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxpm4 libxslt1.1 libxtables12 nginx-common nginx-core
  ucf
Suggested packages:
  iproute2-doc libgd-tools fcgiwrap nginx-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fontconfig-config ... ... nginx nginx-common
  nginx-core ucf
0 upgraded, 34 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
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debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously unselected package libbsd0:arm64.
(Reading database ... 11528 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../00-libbsd0_0.10.0-1_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking libbsd0:arm64 (0.10.0-1) ...
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Setting up libnginx-mod-http-image-filter (1.18.0-0ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up nginx-core (1.18.0-0ubuntu1.2) ...
Not attempting to start NGINX, port 80 is already in use.
Setting up nginx (1.18.0-0ubuntu1.2) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (245.4-4ubuntu3.15) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.2) ...

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Step 3: Now lets create a sample html page,

# cd /var/www
# mkdir root
# cd root
# nano index.html

Add a sample html content in the index.html file to test,

<h1>Hello from Nginx Server on Ubuntu!&tl;/h1>

Step 4: Now lets start the server: # sudo service nginx start

Step 5: Now lets test that the server is up,

curl localhost/root/index.html

<h1>Hello from Nginx Server on Ubuntu!</h1>

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