nginx custom install

nginx-custom-install.txt

(ubuntu)
apt-get update

[https://nginx.org/en/download.html] choose url from here and do: wget [url]

tar -zxvf nginx-...tar.gz

cd nginx... [non-tar version]

./configure

(after error) apt-get install build-essential

./configure [works except for missing modules]

apt-get install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev zlib1g [zlib is for gzipping later] zlib1g-dev libssl-dev [libssl is for https support later (connected to --with-http_ssl_module]

./configure

# FLAGS

[Documentation, 'Building nginx from Sources' shows the necessary flags]

./configure 
--sbin-path=/usr/bin/nginx [location of nginx executable, used for starting and stopping the service]
--conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf 
--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log 
--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log 
--with-pcre [telling nginx to use the system's pcre library for regular expressions]
--pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid [process id path, which we'll need to know when configuring an nginx system's servers(?'s) later on]
--with-http_ssl_module

[compile the configuration source by running:] make

[install the compiled source with:] make install

[check the configuration file exists in that location we configured:] ls -l /etc/nginx

[test if we have the nginx executable aswell by:] nginx -V

[start nginx:] ngin [no errors]

[check the process is running:] ps aux | grep nginx [3 lines of response]

connect to server ip from browser [nginx welcome page]