Simple (Ubuntu/CentOS) Nginx build script.

nginx.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# This script has been tested on CentOS 5 && Ubuntu 12.04.3
#
# By: Joshua Mervine <joshua at mervine dot net> (http://mervine.net)
#
# Note: Does not run `make install` unless run with `INSTALL=true`.

set -e
test "$DEBUG" && set -x

BUILD_ROOT=`pwd`

PAGESPEED=true # set to false to disable pagespeed

VERSION=1.4.2
PSVER=1.6.29.5-beta
PSOLVER=1.6.29.5
PCREVER=8.32
ZLIBVER=1.2.8

# parallelize builds
export JOBS=8

# We don't want to compile against random artifacts
export PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin

# bail if no yup or apt-get
(which apt-get || which yum) || exit 1
which apt-get && sudo apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libssl-dev wget
which yum && sudo yum install gcc-c++ pcre-dev pcre-devel zlib-devel make openssl-devel wget

# delete libs is rebuild
rm -rf nginx-* pcre-* zlib-* release-* *.tar.gz ngx_pagespeed-release-*

if $PAGESPEED; then
  wget https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/archive/release-$PSVER.zip -O release-$PSVER.zip
  unzip release-$PSVER.zip
  cd ngx_pagespeed-release-$PSVER/
  wget https://dl.google.com/dl/page-speed/psol/$PSOLVER.tar.gz
  tar -xzvf $PSOLVER.tar.gz
  cd ..
fi

wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-$VERSION.tar.gz
tar xzf nginx-$VERSION.tar.gz

# for rewrite_module
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre/files/pcre/$PCREVER/pcre-$PCREVER.tar.gz/download \
        -O pcre-$PCREVER.tar.gz
tar xzf pcre-$PCREVER.tar.gz

# for gzip module
wget http://zlib.net/zlib-$ZLIBVER.tar.gz
tar xzf zlib-$ZLIBVER.tar.gz

cd nginx-$VERSION

OPTIONS=" --with-pcre=../pcre-$PCREVER
 --with-zlib=../zlib-$ZLIBVER
 --with-http_ssl_module
 --without-http_uwsgi_module
 --without-http_scgi_module
 --without-http_fastcgi_module
 --without-http_autoindex_module
 --without-http_auth_basic_module"

if $PAGESPEED; then
        OPTIONS+=" --add-module=$BUILD_ROOT/ngx_pagespeed-release-$PSVER"
fi

./configure $OPTIONS

make
test $INSTALL && sudo make install