freenginx
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freenginx¶
[[freenginx]]
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server, originally written by Igor Sysoev. For a long time, it has been running on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Yandex, Mail.Ru, VK, and Rambler. According to Netcraft, nginx served or proxied 20.71% busiest sites in January 2024. Here are some of the success stories: Dropbox, Netflix, Wordpress.com, FastMail.FM.
The sources and documentation are distributed under the 2-clause BSD-like license.
doc¶
https://freenginx.org/en/docs/
repository¶
Install mercurial and clone the repository.
# installation
$ sudo apt install mercurial
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# location
$ which hg
/usr/bin/hg
# version
$ hg --version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 6.3.2)
(see https://mercurial-scm.org for more information)
Copyright (C) 2005-2023 Olivia Mackall and others
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
# clone repository
$ hg clone http://freenginx.org/hg/nginx
destination directory: nginx
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
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build¶
https://freenginx.org/en/docs/configure.html
cd nginx
# list of branches
hg branches
# list of tags
hg tags
# latest tag
hg tags --pager never | head -2 | grep -v tip
# load the tagged version
hg update release-1.25.3
# configure --help
auto/configure --help
# create user - offical docker nginx creates user with 101
sudo groupadd --system --gid 244 nginx
sudo useradd --system --gid nginx --no-create-home --home /nonexistent --comment "nginx user" --shell /bin/false --uid 244 nginx
# install requirements
sudo apt install gcc openssl libpcre3 libpcre3-dev
# configure
auto/configure --prefix=/etc/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --modules-path=/usr/lib/nginx/modules --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi_temp --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp --user=nginx --group=nginx --with-compat --with-file-aio --with-threads --with-http_addition_module --with-http_auth_request_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_slice_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_v2_module --with-http_v3_module --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --with-stream --with-stream_realip_module --with-stream_ssl_module --with-stream_ssl_preread_module --with-cc-opt='-g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/data/builder/debuild/nginx-1.25.1/debian/debuild-base/nginx-1.25.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC' --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--as-needed -pie'
# build and install / make
sudo make
sudo make install
# prepare temp directories specified in configure options
sudo mkdir /var/cache/nginx
cd /var/cache/nginx
sudo mkdir client_temp proxy_temp fastcgi_temp uwsgi_temp scgi_temp
# test and run/stop
sudo nginx -V
sudo nginx -t
sudo nginx
sudo nginx -s stop