Disclaimer: This may not cover all the content. They are just notes I found important to remember

Building Nginx from Source for Ubuntu

• Go to http://nginx.org/en/download.html

• Select the stable version

  • Assume that the link is 'http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.18.0.tar.gz'

• on terminal use wget to download the source code

  • $ wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.18.0.tar.gz
  • see the downloaded tar, nginx-1.18.0.tar

• untar the nginx source code

  • $ tar -zxvf nginx-1.18.0.tar.gz
  • then go into untared directory

• then go to terminal and type ./configure

  • if you have configuration errors, you might be missing build-essentials
  • if you are missing modules, then apt-get install [module]
  • for example apt-get install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev

• $ ./configure --sbin-path=/usr/bin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --with-pcre --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --with-http_ssl_module

  • you can see all the configuration details here: http://nginx.org/en/docs/configure.html

• $ make

  • this will compile the application

• $ make install

  • this will install nginx

• type $ nginx or $ sudo nginx to start nginx

• go to localhost or 127.0.0.1 to see welcome to nginx start page or just simply check on terminal $ ps aux | grep nginx