Building Nginx on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS precise with sticky module

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Original instructions (updates reflected below as of July 2014) at: http://gravitronic.com/compiling-the-nginx-sticky-session-module-in-ubuntu/
 
sudo su -l
aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade
aptitude install build-essential software-properties-common
apt-add-repository ppa:nginx/stable
 
 
# change precise to different code name if necessary
# check contents of source list
cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx-stable-precise.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/stable/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/stable/ubuntu precise main
 
aptitude update
curl http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | apt-key add -
 
cd /usr/src/
apt-get source nginx
 
# add the source code for the sticky module (1.x.x is your nginx version):
# grab a version from one of the tags (tags tab) at
# https://bitbucket.org/nginx-goodies/nginx-sticky-module-ng/downloads
cd nginx-1.x.x/debian/modules
wget https://bitbucket.org/nginx-goodies/nginx-sticky-module-ng/get/1.2.5.tar.gz
tar xzf 1.2.5.tar.gz
 
 
# modify the compile settings to include the sticky module
cd ..
vi rules
# add it to the bottom of each configuration block: full, light and extras
# so that the end of each block looks like:
#
...
        --add-module=$(MODULESDIR)/ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module \
        --add-module=$(MODULESDIR)/nginx-goodies-nginx-sticky-module-ng-bd312d586752
 
 
# install some dependencies
cd /usr/src/nginx-x.y.z/
aptitude build-dep nginx
 
# update dependencies
aptitude install liblua5.1-0-dev init-system-helpers
aptitude install libexpat-dev
 
# compile
dpkg-buildpackage -b
 
 
# Next install the .deb files we created
cd ..
dpkg -i nginx-common_1.6.0-1+precise0_all.deb
dpkg -i nginx-full_1.6.0-1+precise0_amd64.deb
 
 
# verify it's installed
nginx -V
 
 
# run it
service nginx start
service nginx status
 
 
# stop it
service nginx stop