Using nginx-gui for Visual Nginx Configuration, Monitoring, and Management

Introduction

nginx‑gui is an open‑source visual management tool for Nginx that greatly simplifies configuration, performance monitoring, log monitoring, and other settings, making it especially useful for developers who are new to Linux.

Requirements

Configuration management

Performance monitoring

Log monitoring

Other configuration tasks

Solution

The current implementation covers configuration management and performance monitoring. The source code is available at

https://github.com/onlyGuo/nginx-gui

Interface Screenshots

Step 1 – Download and Configure

Visit the GitHub page, download the appropriate installation package for your system, and note the Linux version warning.

Configuration steps:

1. Download and unzip Nginx-GUI-For-Linux-1.0.zip

Extract the archive directly.

2. Modify the configuration file

The file is located at conf/conf.properties:

# nginx installation path
nginx.path = /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.15.12
# nginx full configuration file path
nginx.config = /Users/gsk/dev/apps/nginx-1.15.12/conf/nginx.conf
#
account.admin = admin

3. Rename (Linux 64‑bit only)

Rename the file lib/bin/java_vms to java_vms_nginx_gui for the Linux 64‑bit version.

Step 2 – Run on Server

After completing the above steps, package and deploy to the server.

# Grant permissions
sudo chmod -R 777 nginx-gui/

# Start in background
nohup bash /root/web/nginx-gui/startup.sh > logs/nginx-gui.out &

Access the GUI at the default port 8889 using the default credentials admin / admin.

Interested readers are encouraged to explore the tool further.