About
Nginx default installation is to use a package.
This default installation install some core module and also the below one. See module:
- stream_ssl module - support TLS proxy
- stream - TCP and UDP proxy functionality
See the whole list here
but when you want to add a module, you need to build them against the nginx source
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Type
Package
Example with CentOS. This will install this package if you are on CentOs7.
- Add the EPEL repository
yum install -y nginx
# or
# with the verions
yum install -y nginx-1.16.1
Source
This installation will make the same installation than the package one.
Install the dependencies
- Install the nginx dependency packages. There is more than in the documentation because we are also adding most of the module.
yum install -y redhat-rpm-config openssl-devel gc gcc gcc-c++ pcre-devel zlib-devel make wget libxml2-devel libxslt-devel gd-devel perl-ExtUtils-Embed GeoIP-devel gperftools gperftools-devel libatomic_ops-devel perl-ExtUtils-Embed
Download Nginx
wget https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.16.1.tar.gz
tar zxf nginx-1.16.1.tar.gz
Configure
The configuration option are the same than when you install from a centos package (ie the output of nginx -V)
The documentation for each of this options can be found:
- or in the configure documentation
cd nginx-1.16.1
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/share/nginx \
--sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx \
--modules-path=/usr/lib64/nginx/modules \
--conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \
--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log \
--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log \
--http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/client_body \
--http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/proxy \
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/fastcgi \
--http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/uwsgi \
--http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/scgi \
--pid-path=/run/nginx.pid \
--lock-path=/run/lock/subsys/nginx \
--user=nginx \
--group=nginx \
--with-file-aio \
--with-ipv6 \
--with-http_ssl_module \
--with-http_v2_module \
--with-http_realip_module \
--with-stream_ssl_preread_module \
--with-http_addition_module \
--with-http_xslt_module=dynamic \
--with-http_image_filter_module=dynamic \
--with-http_sub_module \
--with-http_dav_module \
--with-http_flv_module \
--with-http_mp4_module \
--with-http_gunzip_module \
--with-http_gzip_static_module \
--with-http_random_index_module \
--with-http_secure_link_module \
--with-http_degradation_module \
--with-http_slice_module \
--with-http_stub_status_module \
--with-http_perl_module=dynamic \
--with-http_auth_request_module \
--with-mail=dynamic \
--with-mail_ssl_module \
--with-pcre \
--with-pcre-jit \
--with-stream=dynamic \
--with-stream_ssl_module \
--with-google_perftools_module \
--with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic' \
--with-ld-opt='-Wl,-z,relro -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -Wl,-E' \
--with-debug
Compilation or installation
- Installation
make install
- or just compilation
make -j 2
# -j 2 to build in parallel