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

download npm compiled source code and unzip it (use a current LTS; check https://nodejs.org/en/download)

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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.

Hexo with Nginx on CentOS

deploy hexo with nginx on centos

deploy hexo by nginx on centos

install nginx