Installing and configuring Nginx on Windows systems

Nginx as a load balancer has good concurrency performance on Linux systems and uses very little memory. However, it does not support high concurrency on Windows systems, so you need to consider concurrency when choosing Nginx as a load balancer on Windows systems.

If the concurrency requirement is less than 300 and the cluster is deployed for hot standby purposes only, you can use Nginx as a load balancer. If the concurrency requirement is more than 300, Nginx is not recommended and you must switch to another load balancer.

See the official Nginx instructions for more information:  http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html

Note: This article provides a cluster solution that only supports purely directly connected JARs.

2.1 Download Nginx

Recommended Download Version：nginx-1.16.0.zip

If you need another version, you can go to the official page to download：http://nginx.org/

2.2 Installing Nginx

If you have downloaded the Nginx package, you can unzip it in a directory that you can easily manage, such as the D drive, and use it afterwards. As shown in the following image：

2.3 Starting Nginx

2.3.1 Operation and maintenance commands

Windows+R Type cmd to compile the following. For Nginx applications deployed according to this document, use the following Ops command.

1) Go to the Nginx directory, as shown in the following figure.

2）Start and shut down Nginx. As shown below.

start nginx       #Start nginx
nginx -s reload     #Restart nginx
nginx -s stop     #Quick Stop nginx
nginx -s quit     #Complete and orderly stop nginx

2.3.2 Test for successful installation

Type http://ip:nginx port number in the address bar of your browser, for example: http://192.168.61.253:80, and Nginx will appear on the page as a successful installation. As shown in the following figure.

See Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 of the Nginx Installation and Configuration for Linux documentation for more information on Nginx configuration.