nginx with libressl setup for debian 8.4

README.md

1. download 64 bit Debian 8.4 Jessie vmware image from http://www.osboxes.org/debian/#debian-8-4-jessie-vmware

Username: osboxes Password: osboxes.org Root Account Password: osboxes.org

TODO: should setup a new user or change password

2. get sudo, add osboxes user under root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL osboxes ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

su
aptitude -y install sudo
visudo

3. install c/c++ compilers and make

comment (#) the cdrom line(s) in /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install make

4. download nginx + libressl install script https://gist.github.com/noname77/3f1753b49889d39654f71b6e1c18c8da

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/noname77/3f1753b49889d39654f71b6e1c18c8da/raw/5da39a78d2f754b8f35d04c2edb5e5c6ccddb5a6/build_nginx.sh

5. the default modules also require:

• HTTP gzip module requires the zlib library
• HTTP image filter module requires the GD library
• GeoIP module requires the GeoIP library

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev
sudo apt-get install libgeoip-dev

6. run the script

chmod +x ./build-nginx
./build-nginx

7. create necessary ??? folders

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/nginx/body
sudo mkdir /var/log/nginx

8. run nginx

sudo nginx