Step 3: Deploy an Application
This section describes how to deploy an application on a BMS.
Install and Start Nginx
- Run the yum install nginx command to install Nginx and enter y as prompted.
If the information shown in the following figure is displayed, Nginx is installed successfully.

Huawei Cloud provides free yum repositories, and the NTP and DNS services.
- Enter systemctl start nginx.service to start Nginx.
This command applies to CentOS 7.4 64-bit, which is used as an example.
- Enter wget http://127.0.0.1 to test Nginx.

Access the Default Web Page
Open a browser and enter http://BMS EIP in the address box. If the Nginx welcome page is displayed, Nginx is installed successfully.