Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Regular HTTP and HTTPS servers

The first example describes a situation where the most important features and modules for serving HTTP and HTTPS content are enabled, and mail-related options are disabled:

./configure --user=www-data --group=www-data --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module  

As you can see, the command is rather simple and most switches were left out. The reason is that the default configuration is rather efficient and most of the important modules are enabled. You will only need to include the http_ssl module for serving HTTPS content and optionally, the realip module for retrieving your visitors' IP addresses in case you are running Nginx as a backend server.