You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
—Richard Branson
Based on your requirements, you can choose to download the precompiled packages or compiled binaries with their components from the Nginx website. If the basic and default set of binaries do not suit your needs, you can choose to download the packages from source and compile it yourself. Both the methods have its pros and cons, and in this chapter you will learn the details in a step-by-step manner. Quite often, you will need to use modules that are not a part of the default setup. In such cases, there is no other way than ...
