Unable to use load_module

[frnzhop]

Hi,

I need to include the geoip2 module.

I've tried to place it in /etc/nginx/geoip.conf like this

load_module modules/ngx_http_geoip2_module.so;
load_module modules/ngx_stream_geoip2_module.so;

geoip_country /etc/nginx/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb {
  $geoip_country_code default=US source=$remote_addr country iso_code;
}

However, I get this error:

frontend-nginx-proxy  | forego      | starting nginx.1 on port 32200
frontend-nginx-proxy  | nginx.1     | nginx: [emerg] "load_module" directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/conf.d/geoip.conf:1

There's this other issue on this topic which was never resolved: #1535

Thank you for the help.

[buchdag]

Hi @frnzhop

That's weird, I don't understand where your geoip.conf is included from, there is nothing in the upstream image or in the nginx.tmpl file that should include it by default. 🤔

Have you modified anything else ?

[mattia-chiozzi]

Hi,

thank you for your answer. I'm replying from this other account since I don't have access to the other one rn.
You're right, I should've mentioned the path /etc/nginx/geoip.conf was just my convention.
I solved it by mounting a modified nginx.conf in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf with the following content:

load_module modules/ngx_http_geoip_module.so;

user  nginx;
worker_processes  auto;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log notice;
pid        /run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections   10240;
}
worker_rlimit_nofile 20480;


http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    geoip_country /etc/nginx/geoip/GeoIP.dat;
    geoip_city /etc/nginx/geoip/GeoLiteCity.dat;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #gzip  on;

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

include /etc/nginx/toplevel.conf.d/*.conf;

However, with my solution I won't get updates to the nginx.conf file.
Is there a better way to customize nginx core directives in general?

Thank you.

[buchdag]

That's the solution I was about to suggest, and sadly no at the moment there isn't any other way to customize nginx core directives other than mounting your own /etc/nginx/nginx.conf to the container.

However I wouldn't worry so much about missing updates to the nginx.conf file, I'm not event sure I witnessed changes to it in the years I've been maintaining this repo.

Interestingly I can't trace this file origin, it's not on the docker-nginx repo and does not match the one on the nginx repo (which was last updated 12 years ago). Maybe generated when nginx is built 🤷 ?