Nginx on Mac

18 Jul 2009
In trying to get a local environment that mirrors what's running on this server I installed the Mac port of nginx.

sudo port install nginx

Couple gotchas I'm publishing for the Google:

  • nginx has to run as root on the Mac. Otherwise you'll run into all kinds of permission issues. Apparently a bunch of paths are hard-coded into the binary and normal users don't have write access to those directories.
  • The config file must be specified with the full path. Otherwise it won't find it and will use the default without telling you.

Posted by Andrew Bunner on Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 12:54 PM | 0 TrackBacks

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