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Install Nginx from source on Ubuntu Hardy with SSL

July 15th, 2008 | Linux

These are my notes for installing Nginx on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 Server with SSL support. This was pieced this together from many different sources, thanks everyone for their help.

Install prerequisites:

aptitude install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libssl-dev zlib1g-dev build-essential

Download, configure, and install Nginx:

mkdir ~/sources
cd ~/sources
wget http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.6.31.tar.gz
tar -zxvf nginx-0.6.31.tar.gz
cd nginx-0.6.31/
./configure --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --with-http_ssl_module
make
make install

Installation complete, lets start it up:

/usr/local/sbin/nginx

Visit http://example.com and you should see the “Welcome to Nginx” page. Congrats! Now lets stop it:

kill `cat /usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid`

Now we’ll create an INIT script so we can start/stop/restart it just like Apache, save this as /etc/init.d/nginx

#! /bin/sh
 
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          nginx
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     $all
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts the nginx web server
# Description:       starts nginx using start-stop-daemon
### END INIT INFO
 
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/nginx
NAME=nginx
DESC=nginx
 
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
 
# Include nginx defaults if available
if [ -f /etc/default/nginx ] ; then
        . /etc/default/nginx
fi
 
set -e
 
case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /usr/local/nginx/logs/$NAME.pid \
                --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /usr/local/nginx/logs/$NAME.pid \
                --exec $DAEMON
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
 
  restart|force-reload)
        echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile \
                /usr/local/nginx/logs/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON
        sleep 1
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile \
                /usr/local/nginx/logs/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  reload)
      echo -n "Reloading $DESC configuration: "
      start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --quiet --pidfile /usr/local/nginx/logs/$NAME.pid \
          --exec $DAEMON
      echo "$NAME."
      ;;
  *)
        N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
        echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
 
exit 0

Give it some permissions:

chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx

Make Nginx startup on system boot:

/usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f nginx defaults

Setup rotation of the nginx logs:

/etc/logrotate.d/nginx

/usr/local/nginx/logs/*.log {
        daily
        missingok
        rotate 30
        compress
        delaycompress
        notifempty
        create 640 root adm
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                [ ! -f /usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid ] || kill -USR1 `cat /usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid`
        endscript
}

Now you can start,stop, & restart nginx like so:

/etc/init.d/nginx start
/etc/init.d/nginx stop
/etc/init.d/nginx restart

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