Copy paste code to install newest nginx from nginx.org on CentOS 8. Read more at http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#RHEL-CentOS
sudo yum install yum-utils cat <<EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo [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 module_hotfixes=true [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 module_hotfixes=true EOF sudo yum install nginx