Update nginx in ubuntu 14.04

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In my server, nginx -v returns nginx version: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu), it is very old, so I decided to update it to the latest stable version.

Then, I followed this answer:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx

It gives:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  nginx-common nginx-core
Suggested packages:
  fcgiwrap nginx-doc
The following packages will be upgraded:
  nginx nginx-common nginx-core
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 311 not upgraded.
Need to get 349 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,072 B of additional disk space will be used.
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Get:1 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main nginx-common all 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.7 [19.0 kB]
Get:2 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main nginx all 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.7 [5,352 B]
Get:3 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main nginx-core amd64 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.7 [325 kB]
Fetched 349 kB in 0s (431 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 111751 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../nginx-common_1.4.6-1ubuntu3.7_all.deb ...
Unpacking nginx-common (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.7) over (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.5) ...
Preparing to unpack .../nginx_1.4.6-1ubuntu3.7_all.deb ...
Unpacking nginx (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.7) over (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.5) ...
Preparing to unpack .../nginx-core_1.4.6-1ubuntu3.7_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nginx-core (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.7) over (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.5) ...
Processing triggers for ufw (0.34~rc-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up nginx-common (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.7) ...
Setting up nginx-core (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.7) ...
Setting up nginx (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.7) ...

However, nginx -v still returns nginx version: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu).

Does anyone know a safe way to update nginx, without modifying configuration files? Because it is in the server in production, I would like to be very careful...

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3 Answers

Update in 2019: the ppa solution can be used to upgrade Nginx to 1.14.x. In order to upgrade Nginx to the latest stable or mainline version, you need to uninstall Nginx and then re-install it following the document:

// Uninstall Nginx
sudo apt-get remove nginx

//Then, install Nginx following document: http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#Ubuntu
sudo apt install curl gnupg2 ca-certificates lsb-release
echo "deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu `lsb_release -cs` nginx"| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list
curl -fsSL https://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx
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