About the prefix switch
During the configuration, you should take particular care over the --prefix switch. Many of the future configuration directives (which we will cover in further chapters) will be based on the path you select at this point. While it is not a an insoluble problem since absolute paths can still be employed, you should know that the prefix cannot be changed once the binaries have been compiled.
There is also another issue that you may run into if you plan to keep up with the times and update Nginx as new versions are released. The default prefix (if you do not override the setting by using the --prefix switch) is /usr/local/nginx. This path does not include the version number. Consequently, when you upgrade Nginx, if you ...
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