How to compile and install Nginx from the source on Linux (With a sample of nginx.conf)

Reference: http://wiki.nginx.org/Main

Downloading Packages:

NginX – http://wiki.nginx.org/Install
Zlib – http://zlib.net/ (Allow to use gzip to compress content before delivery to clients with gzip-enable)
PCRE – http://www.pcre.org/ (Allow to use Regular expressions in rewrite configuration)

Addons (Third party modules used by my own test – Not necessary in a basic instalation):
Http Healthcheck – http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpHealthcheckModule
Headers More – http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpHeadersMoreModule
Log RequestSpeed – http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLogRequestSpeed

Unpacking:

$ tar -xzvf nginx-1.1.17.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf pcre-8.30.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf zlib-1.2.6.tar.gz

Configuring:

# Entering in the nginx directory
$ cd nginx-1.1.17/

# Run the configure setting the PCRE and ZLIB unpackeged paths (You can ignore the "--ad-module" if dont want
# use any of these modules)
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/nginx --with-pcre=/[PATH_UNPACKING]/pcre-8.30/ --with-zlib=/[PATH_UNPACKING]/zlib-1.2.6 \
--with-http_flv_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_stub_status_module \
--add-module=/[PATH_UNPACKING]/http_healthcheck/ --add-module=/[PATH_UNPACKING]/headers_more \
--add-module=/[PATH_UNPACKING]/ngx_http_log_request_speed/

$ make

$ make install 

Author:

Rafael Inocencio <[email protected]>
https://github.com/rcicm