As the biggest rival to Apache in the web server market, it’s good to know how to build and use Nginx.

1. Install (or confirm installed):

openssl-devel
pcre-devel
gcc
zlib-devel

2. Download nginx source from http://nginx.org/en/download.html
3. Untar the source tarball
4. Run

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nginx \
--with-http_ssl_module \
--without-mail_pop3_module \
--without-mail_imap_module \
--without-mail_smtp_module \
--with-http_stub_status_module

5. As root run:

make && make install

6. Start web server using init script to confirm function, review logs for issues

You can find an init script for nginx here: https://github.com/breauxaj/nginx.git