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Mastering NGINX - Second Edition
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Mastering NGINX - Second Edition

by Dimitri Aivaliotis
July 2016
Beginner
320 pages
6h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Mastering NGINX - Second Edition

Putting it all together

Now that you have gotten a glimpse at what all the various configuration options are for, you can design a binary that precisely fits your needs. The following example specifies the prefix, user, group, paths, disables some modules, enables some others, and includes a couple of third-party modules:

$ export BUILD_DIR=`pwd`
$ export NGINX_INSTALLDIR=/opt/nginx
$ export VAR_DIR=/home/www/tmp
$ export LUAJIT_LIB=/opt/luajit/lib
$ export LUAJIT_INC=/opt/luajit/include/luajit-2.0

$ ./configure \
        --prefix=${NGINX_INSTALLDIR} \
        --user=www \
        --group=www \
        --http-client-body-temp-path=${VAR_DIR}/client_body_temp \
        --http-proxy-temp-path=${VA
R_DIR}/proxy_temp \
        --http-fastcgi-temp-path=${VAR_DIR}/fastcgi_temp \
 --without-http_uwsgi_module ...
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