Nginx-ee

Automated Nginx compilation from sources with HTTP/3 QUIC and additional modules support

Features • Modules • Compatibility • Usage • Wiki • Related • Credits • License

Features

Compile the latest Nginx releases : stable or mainline
Install Nginx or replace Nginx package previously installed
Nginx built-in modules selection
Nginx Third-party modules selection
Dynamic modules support
HTTP/3 QUIC Support
Brotli Support
TLS v1.3 support
OpenSSL or LibreSSL
Cloudflare zlib
Automated nginx updates cronjob
Security hardening and performance optimization enabled with proper GCC flags
An option to omit nginx configuration, allowing usage of third party devops tools

Additional Third-party modules

Nginx current mainline release : v1.27.0 with HTTP/3 QUIC

Nginx current stable release : v1.26.1 with HTTP/3 QUIC

For Nginx http_ssl_module :

Optional modules :

Compatibility

Operating System

Also compatible

Raspbian 10 (Buster)
Raspbian 11 (Bullseye)

Applications

LEMP Stack

EasyEngine v3
WordOps

Plesk

17.5.x (Onyx)
17.8.x
17.9.x
18.x (Obsidian)

HTTP/3 QUIC

Full support of HTTP/3 QUIC is only available with LibreSSL. More information here.

Usage

One-Step Automated Install

Default settings :

mainline release with HTTP/3
openssl from system
without naxsi
without rtmp

bash <(wget -qO - vtb.cx/nginx-ee || curl -sL vtb.cx/nginx-ee)

Alternative Install Method

git clone https://github.com/VirtuBox/nginx-ee
cd nginx-ee
sudo bash nginx-build.sh

Interactive install

Interactive installation is available with arguments -i or --interactive

bash <(wget -O - vtb.cx/nginx-ee || curl -sL vtb.cx/nginx-ee) --interactive

Custom installation

Example : Nginx stable release HTTP/3 with naxsi

bash <(wget -O - vtb.cx/nginx-ee || curl -sL vtb.cx/nginx-ee) --stable --naxsi

Options available

Nginx build options :

--stable : compile Nginx stable release with HTTP/3
--full : Naxsi + RTMP
--dynamic : Compile Nginx modules as dynamic modules
--noconf : Compile Nginx without any configuring. Useful when you use devops tools like ansible.

Optional third-party modules :

--naxsi : compile nginx with naxsi
--rtmp : compile nginx with rtmp module
--libressl : compile nginx with LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL

Extras :

--cron : setup daily cronjob to update nginx each time a new release is available

Roadmap

Packages

You are looking for an up-to-date version of Nginx with additional modules but without having to recompile Nginx after new releases ? Feel free to use the custom Nginx package built for WordOps and available on Launchpad.net (for Ubuntu) and OpenSuseBuildService (for Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian).

Add the repository

Launchpad

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wordops/nginx-wo -uy

OpenSuseBuildService

Install steps available on Download page

Install Nginx

sudo apt install nginx-custom nginx-wo -y

Contributing

If you have any ideas, just open an issue and describe what you would like to add/change in Nginx-ee.

If you'd like to contribute, please fork the repository and make changes as you'd like. Pull requests are warmly welcome.

Credits

centminmod : Nginx, Nginx modules & various other patches
hakase : OpenSSL-patch
Karl Chen : Nginx patches

VirtuBox/nginx-ee