I will try to make this as OS independent as possible however some parts may vary depending on your host.
- First update all of your packages:
For CentOS
sudo yum update -yFor Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y - Second, install required dependencies for building Nginx:
For CentOS
sudo yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'For Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt install build-essential -y - Thirdly, Download the latest (Or chosen version) of Nginx from https://nginx.org/download/, At the time of writing this is nginx-1.13.6.tar.gz
For Both OS’s
wget https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.13.6.tar.gz - Now extract the .tar.gz
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tar -xvzf nginx-1.13.6.tar.gz - Now also download and extract some Nginx dependencies
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# PCRE version 4.4 - 8.40 wget https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/pcre-8.40.tar.gz && tar xzvf pcre-8.40.tar.gz # zlib version 1.1.3 - 1.2.11 wget http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz && tar xzvf zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz # OpenSSL version 1.0.2 - 1.1.0 wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.0f.tar.gz && tar xzvf openssl-1.1.0f.tar.gz - Now cd into the Nginx extracted directory
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cd nginx-1.13.6 - Now it gets real, lets ./configure!
For Ubuntu (I have chosen to run the nginx user as www-data in this example, this is usually nginx if installed from a package)
./configure --prefix=/usr/share/nginx \ --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx \ --modules-path=/usr/lib/nginx/modules \ --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \ --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log \ --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log \ --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid \ --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock \ --user=www-data \ --group=www-data \ --build=Ubuntu \ --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body \ --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi \ --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy \ --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi \ --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi \ --with-openssl=../openssl-1.1.0f \ --with-openssl-opt=enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128 \ --with-openssl-opt=no-nextprotoneg \ --with-openssl-opt=no-weak-ssl-ciphers \ --with-openssl-opt=no-ssl3 \ --with-pcre=../pcre-8.40 \ --with-pcre-jit \ --with-zlib=../zlib-1.2.11 \ --with-compat \ --with-file-aio \ --with-threads \ --with-http_addition_module \ --with-http_auth_request_module \ --with-http_dav_module \ --with-http_flv_module \ --with-http_gunzip_module \ --with-http_gzip_static_module \ --with-http_mp4_module \ --with-http_random_index_module \ --with-http_realip_module \ --with-http_slice_module \ --with-http_ssl_module \ --with-http_sub_module \ --with-http_stub_status_module \ --with-http_v2_module \ --with-http_secure_link_module \ --with-mail \ --with-mail_ssl_module \ --with-stream \ --with-stream_realip_module \ --with-stream_ssl_module \ --with-stream_ssl_preread_module \ --with-debug \ --with-cc-opt='-g -O2 -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' \ --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -fPIE -pie -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now' - Now make, and make install
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make && sudo make installWell done! You now have Nginx installed! But we aren’t quite done yet.
- Before Nginx will even start you will need to create this directory:
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sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/nginx - now lets create a systemd unit, so we can start our service with systemctl:
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sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/nginx.servicePaste this into the above file:
[Unit] Description=A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server After=network.target [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/run/nginx.pid ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g 'daemon on; master_process on;' ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -g 'daemon on; master_process on;' ExecReload=/usr/sbin/nginx -g 'daemon on; master_process on;' -s reload ExecStop=-/sbin/start-stop-daemon --quiet --stop --retry QUIT/5 --pidfile /run/nginx.pid TimeoutStopSec=5 KillMode=mixed [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target - Thats it, lets start Nginx:
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sudo systemctl start nginx.service && sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
Thank You for this.