Nginx-ee

Automated Nginx compilation from sources with additional modules support

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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
Brotli Support
TLS v1.3 support (Final)
OpenSSL (1.1.1g or 3.0.0-dev or from system-lib) or LibreSSL
Cloudflare HPACK
Cloudflare zlib
Automated nginx updates cronjob
Compilation with GCC-7/9
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 : v1.19.2 Nginx current stable release : v1.18.0

For Nginx http_ssl_module :

Optional modules :

Compatibility

Operating System

Also compatible

Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial)
Debian 9 (Stretch)
Debian 8 (Jessie)
Raspbian 9 (Stretch)
Raspbian 10 (Buster)

Applications

LEMP Stack

EasyEngine v3
WordOps

Plesk

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

Usage

One-Step Automated Install

Default settings :

mainline release
openssl stable : 1.1.1g
without pagespeed
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 with pagespeed and naxsi

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

Options available

Nginx build options :

--stable : compile Nginx stable release
--full : Naxsi + PageSpeed + 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 :

--pagespeed: compile nginx with ngx_pagespeed latest-stable
--pagespeed-beta: compile nginx with ngx_pagespeed latest-beta
--naxsi : compile nginx with naxsi
--rtmp : compile nginx with rtmp module
--libressl : compile nginx with LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL
--openssl-dev : compile nginx with OpenSSL 3.0.0-dev
--openssl-system : compile nginx with OpenSSL system lib

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

carlstrand/nginx-ee