Hexo with Nginx on CentOS

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deploy hexo with nginx on centos

deploy hexo by nginx on centos

Era note (2026): This guide targets CentOS 7, which reached EOL on 2024-06-30. On CentOS 8/9 use the same flow but replace yum with dnf, and pick the nginx.org repo matching your major version. Consider a maintained distro such as Rocky / AlmaLinux 9 instead.

  • create some dirs and enter pkgs dir
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mkdir /home/packages && cd /home/packages
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wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v24.19.0/node-v24.19.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
tar -xvf node-v24.19.0-linux-x64.tar.xz -C /usr/share/

CentOS 7 caveat: Node ≥ 18 prebuilt binaries require glibc ≥ 2.28, while CentOS 7 ships glibc 2.17 — so on CentOS 7 only older Node (e.g. 16) runs natively.
The era note above already redirects new installs to maintained distros (e.g. Rocky / AlmaLinux 9), where this v24 build works.

Note: Node v11 (pinned in the original 2019 guide) is long EOL with known CVEs. As of Aug 2026 the Active LTS is v24 "Krypton"; on modern distros you may prefer the NodeSource repo or your distro's nodejs package.

  • create soft link
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mv /usr/share/node-v24.19.0-linux-x64 /usr/share/nodejs
ln -s /usr/share/nodejs/bin/node /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/share/nodejs/bin/npm /usr/local/bin/
  • install hexo
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npm install -g hexo-cli
ln -s /usr/share/nodejs/bin/hexo /usr/local/bin/

install nginx

  • configure yum repo
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vi /etc/yum.repos.d/my.repo
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[nginx-stable]
name=nginx stable repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/centos/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key

[nginx-mainline]
name=nginx mainline repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/centos/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=https://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key
  • install nginx and start it
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yum install -y nginx
systemctl start nginx && systemctl enable nginx
  • init hexo project
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mkdir /home/website && cd /home/website && hexo init && hexo g
  • refer to hexo public dir
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vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
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location / {
    root   /home/website/public;
    index  index.html index.htm;
}
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systemctl restart nginx

Now, you can access your blog by your IP address.