Installation Guide - nginx (with http2 support).md

installation-guide-nginx.md

Install nginx with http2 support on Ubuntu

• Backup your nginx.conf files (usually under /etc/nginx/sites-available)
• Remove old nginx - nginx incl. nginx-common: apt-get autoremove --purge nginx nginx-common
• Add sources list for new nginx

Create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list with the following content:

deb http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ trusty nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ trusty nginx

• add nginx signing key:wget -q -O- http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | sudo apt-key add -
• update package cache: sudo apt-get update
• install new nginx: sudo apt-get install nginx
• fix /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
  • add this to the end of the http section:
    • Set user to www-data
    • Set worker_processes to 4
    • Set tcp_nopush to on
    • Set tcp_nodelay to on
    • Set types_hash_max_size to 2048
    • Set server_tokens to off
    • Set gzip to on
    • Set gzip_disable to "msie6"
    • Add include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
  • remove /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
  • or, sudo rm -rf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
• fix /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params:
  • add fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  • add sites-* folders:sudo mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-available /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
  • add your previously backuped site configs and enable them by symlinking in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled.

Enable http2

Add to your https hosts congig:

  listen 443 http2;
  listen [::]:443 http2;

Restart nginx:

sudo systemctl stop nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx