# Installing NGINX on MAC (Part 1)

Nginx is one of the most widely used web servers in the world. In addition to being a web server it has also become very popular for reverse proxy, HTTP Caching & Load Balancing. 

This is a multipart part series where we will be installing, configuring and deploying Nginx on a local machine with Mac OS installed as it were a production machine. 

Let's start with Part 1: Installing Nginx. 



### Installing Homebrew

We will be using Homebrew to install Nginx. To install Homebrew open your terminal and fire the below command:


```
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
``` 

You can visit https://brew.sh/ for more details

If Homebrew is already installed you can use the below command to update the repository index


```
brew update
``` 



### Installing Nginx

Once Homebrew is installed, installing Nginx is as easy as 


```
brew install nginx
``` 

Once installed you can see the version of the Nginx that is installed in the Summary.



### Starting and Stopping Nginx

To start the Nginx server fire the below command. 

```
nginx
```

It will start the web server. You can then visit [http://127.0.0.1:8080](http://127.0.0.1:8080) in your browser to see a welcome message by Nginx.

To stop the Nginx server add the stop signal as below.

```
nginx -s stop
``` 


Next ->  [Part 2: Simple Configuration Nginx on Mac](https://blog.royalecheese.com/simple-configuration-of-nginx-on-mac-part-2)