Nginx HTTP Rest Module

Setup

You get to have an Nginx distribution. In this case, this was developed with the 1.24.0 release (https://nginx.org/en/download.html)

After you have a distribution of Nginx, you have to clone this repository into the distribution project structure

cd nginx-x.x.x/
git clone https://github.com/mayoras/nginx_http_rest_module.git

The folder where the custom modules are stored can get any name, for simplicity use modules

mv nginx_http_rest_module modules

The rest is just following the steps made on this post. Although the module can be added to Nginx as an static module (meaning it is compiled along Nginx), it also can be added dynamically, we are going to do this last one (for doing it statically follow the steps on online post).

First configure the Nginx build.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nginx --add-dynamic-module=modules/ngx_http_rest_module

Second, build and link and then install to system (it is going to be installed differently depending on the prefix we configured, this prefix will determine the root Nginx is going to look for).

make
sudo make install

Third and last, run Nginx!

sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx

Dynamic loading

For those who built the addon modules dynamically, you have to tell explicitly Nginx to load that module in the config file <prefix>/conf/nginx.conf

load_module modules/ngx_http_rest_module.so;
...

http {
    ...
}