Compile nginx standalone without root access

install_nginx.sh

# Compile nginx standalone without root access
mkdir ~/installed
mkdir ~/installed/nginx
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src

# PCRE dependency - we'll compile against this statically
wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pcre/pcre-7.8.tar.gz
tar -xzvf pcre-7.8.tar.gz

wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1g.tar.gz
tar -xzvf openssl-1.0.1g.tar.gz

wget http://cznic.dl.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/zlib/1.2.8/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
tar -xzvf zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz

# Grab nginx
wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.4.7.tar.gz
tar -xzvf nginx-1.4.7.tar.gz

# Compile it
cd nginx-1.4.7
./configure --prefix=$HOME/installed/nginx --with-pcre=$HOME/src/pcre-7.8 --with-zlib=$HOME/src/zlib-1.2.8
make
make install

# Edit config to not bind to port 80 (as we aren't root)
vi ~/installed/nginx/conf/nginx.conf