Follow these steps to install Nginx on Linux and configure PHP support, virtual hosts, HTTP authentication, SSL support, URL rewrites, and load balancing ...

Unlink the default configuration file by typing: sudo unlink /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default Now, we need a new configuration file.

If you have an NGINX site that must allow users to upload files, try this configuration to help prevent possible Denial-of-Service attacks.

You do that by configuring NGINX as a reverse proxy for Apache. With this setup, NGINX will listen for all incoming requests to port 80 and pass them on to Apache, which is listening in on port 8080.