On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 15:34 -0400, Jeff Kaufman wrote: > I haven't been able to find a good guide for people who have been > using nginx as installed by their linux distribution who want to > switch to using an nginx they built themselves. This comes up a lot > with ngx_pagespeed because for many users we're the first module they > want which isn't packaged with their distro. Does this guide exist? > If not, I might write one for ubuntu at least. > > This is somewhat similar to a regular "install nginx from source" > guide but it needs to have at least: > > * how to get a list of the modules you need to add (nginx -V | grep > configure_arguments) > * how to copy your config over > * how to keep and modify your nginx init script when uninstalling the > distro-provided nginx > * how to do all of this with minimal downtime and risk on a single VPS > > Jeff >
A good starting point is to build it up using the current configuration delivered from your distro. That way you don't need to fool around moving config files, etc and a reinstall is just to copy /usr/sbin/nginx into place. You need a dev environment... apt-get install build-essential or yum groupinstall "Development Tools" You'll need a load of dependencies, so expect to run the configure quite a few times before it succeeds! And the source code... cd /usr/local/src wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.5.11.tar.gz wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.5.11.tar.gz.asc gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key A1C052F gpg nginx-1.5.11.tar.gz.asc Code downloaded and verified. expand the archive and move into it tar xf nginx-1.5.11.tar.gz cd nginx-1.5.11 To get the current configuration, use the command nginx -V I use the output to generate a file build.sh which I then modify ready to run the configure ( this is on ans amazon ec2 server )... $ cat build.sh ./configure \ --prefix=/etc/nginx \ --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx \ --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \ --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log \ --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log \ --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid \ --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock \ --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp \ --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp \ --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp \ --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi_temp \ --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp \ --user=nginx \ --group=nginx \ --with-http_ssl_module \ --with-http_realip_module \ --with-http_addition_module \ --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_stub_status_module \ --with-mail \ --with-mail_ssl_module \ --with-file-aio \ --with-ipv6 \ --with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' so I can keep on running sh build.sh until it completes correctly. then you can run make make install nginx -t and if that is successful, restart nginx to get it running. Make sure you've saved the old version of nginx first, although both rpm and dpkg offer options to reinstall if necessary. You can also use this as a starting point to build in ngx_pagespeed support for example ( good howtos online ). I also strip /usr/sbin/nginx to drop the debug info. It's way more important to do this if using the aforementioned extension, as IIRC the end result is over 100MB. hth, Steve -- Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MIITP http://www.greengecko.co.nz Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveholdoway Skype: sholdowa _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
