Installing nginx on OS X Snow Leopard

Thanks to Kevin Worthington for his installation instructions. Comments are closed on his post so I’ve added these notes to my own blog.

Kevin’s instructions worked for the most part, with the exception of adding /usr/local to my PATH. Running which nginx showed it could not locate nginx, I found the executable resides in /usr/local/sbin and so added this directory in place of /usr/local

nginx was then available:

$ . ~/.profile
$ which nginx
/usr/local/sbin/nginx

I installed more recent versions of PCRE and nginx: PCRE 8.20 and nginx 1.0.11 – maybe this had some bearing on executable location. Public gist of commands.