Install Nginx1.9.5 web-server from source compile on linux

Before we understand what is nginx, we should know how to pronounce nginx.
Its not N G I N X. nginx is pronounced as “Engine X”.

nginx is an open source web server that is similar to Apache, but very light weight. nginx is both web server and reverse proxy server.

The following are some of the features of nginx:

  • It serves static and index files
  • Reverse proxy with caching
  • Supports SSL
  • Simple load balancing with fault tolerance
  • Both name-based and ip-based virtual server can be configured
  • HTTP basic authentication
  • Supports rewrite module
  • Supports gzip, XSLT, SSI and image resizing filters
  • All the main mail proxy server features are supported
  • and lot more.. 
 Let us get started by installing nginx and get it up and running

1. Download nginx

Download nginx from here, or use wget as shown below. The current stable version is nginx 1.9.5

cd /usr/src/
wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.9.5.tar.gz
tar xvfz nginx-1.9.5.tar.gz
cd nginx-1.9.5

2. Install nginx

CentOS
#yum install make gcc pcre-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel git bison wget
Ubuntu   
#sudo apt-get install gcc libpcre++-dev libssl-dev make git
There are lot of options that you can pass to ./configure. To identify list of all the configuration options do the following.

./configure --help 

Download the required expansion nginx source
mkdir -p /home/git/code
cd /home/git/code
git clone https://github.com/yaoweibin/ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module
git clone https://github.com/agentzh/sregex
git clone https://github.com/agentzh/replace-filter-nginx-module

Install sregex
cd /home/git/code/sregex
make
make install

Compile nginx

#cd /usr/src/
#tar xzvf nginx-1.9.5.tar.gz
#cd nginx-1.9.5
#
./configure \
--with-http_stub_status_module \
--with-http_ssl_module \
--with-http_realip_module \
--with-http_sub_module \
--with-http_gzip_static_module \
--with-ipv6 \
--add-module=/home/git/code/ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module \
--add-module=/home/git/code/replace-filter-nginx-module

make
make install

now we need to ln file to directory:
+centos 32bit
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libsregex.so.0 /lib

+centos 64bit
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libsregex.so.0 /lib64

Start Nginx Server

#/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx

Check version of nginx:

#/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -v


check nginx port status 

#netstat -tapn | grep nginx

if you want to stop nginx use this:

# /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s stop

Testing nginx with PHP info file

#vim /usr/local/nginx/html/phpinfo.php
past this php code
<?php

phpinfo();

?>
-open web browser:

http://server-ip/phpinfo.php

To debug issues, view the error.log and access.log files located under /usr/local/nginx/logs

ls /usr/local/nginx/logs/
access.log
error.log

Add nginx auto start when reboot

#vim /etc/rc.local

add this:
/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx

save and exit
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reference:
-http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/07/install-nginx-from-source/
-http://www.cnblogs.com/firadio/p/4111823.html

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