Use the latest nginx in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

Official version of nginx for #Ubuntu Precise is 1.1.19 but the latest available stable version is 1.2.8 (Changes), In this post I will present you how to update to the latest available version.

Thanks to Ondřej Surý,  maintainer for some Debian packages, you can have the latest PHP5 maintained by Debian PKG PHP Team in #Ubuntu Precise, Quantal , and Lucid.

Just run as root the following to use nginx

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/nginx
apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade

You can check that everything went fine

dpkg -l | grep nginx

ii nginx        1.2.8-1~precise+1 
ii nginx-common 1.2.8-1~precise+1
ii nginx-full   1.2.8-1~precise+1

Changes with nginx 1.2

More at http://wiki.nginx.org/Install