Thank you Thomas. Much appreciate this, it sounds promising. Appreciate your clarity.
So if I: 1. Compile nginx via `dnf install nginx` and that becomes my system's Nginx, installed usually in `/etc/nginx` 2. In a totally separate folder, say, `/usr/src`, I then download a tarball of Nginx and compile it along with the dynamic modules -- which will produce the .so files for said modules 3. Copy over the modules into the usual `/etc/nginx/modules` folder from Step 1 ....in this sequence of steps, how do I make sure that: A. The compilation in Step 2 does not become my "system's nginx" (so when I do an `nginx -v` at the command prompt it should be refer to the nginx installed in Step 1 above, and *not* the one compiled via Step 2) B. The compile in Step 2 will use the "same libraries" that DNF used? In the DNF version of life I didn't pick any libraries manually...DNF found what was on my system. Will the manual compile not do the same? Many thanks! On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 10:19 PM Thomas Ward <tew...@thomas-ward.net> wrote: > I'm fairly familiar with the 'compiling process' for dynamic modules - the > process is the same for NGINX Open Source as wel as NGINX Plus. > > You would need to compile the modules alongside NGINX and then harvest the > compiled .so files and put them into corresponding locations on the system > you want to load the dynamic modules. In Ubuntu, we do this (or at least, > I do) by using the same OS and libraries as installed on the target system > (as well as the same NGINX version). > > This being said, **compiling** NGINX is different than **installing** > NGINX - you can *compile* the nginx version 1.18.0 with the dynamic modules > and the same configuration as the Fedora version, and then **take the > compiled module** and load it up in your installed nginx instance. > Compiling NGINX to make the dynamic module does NOT require you to then > install that NGINX version, provided that you match the `make` steps and > installed/available libraries to those used in the original nginx compile > done in Fedora. > > > Thomas > > > On 1/6/21 5:30 PM, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > > Thank you Miguel. But you misunderstood the question. This suggestion... > > > >> nginx blog as a great guide on it though >> https://www.nginx.com/blog/compiling-dynamic-modules-nginx-plus/ >> >> > > > ...misses the very first question in this thread: we cannot compile nginx > from source on our server. At least not in a way that that compiled version > would become the nginx installed in our *system*. We need to install nginx > via the default Fedora dnf package manager, which at this time installs > 1.18.0. > > Now, what I don't mind doing is to compile nginx in some self-contained > folder somewhere, then use that compilation to create the .so or whatever > the module file for that version is....if all of this module compiling does > *not* affect the system-installed dnf version of nginx. Is this possible? > > If so, the instructions do not help with this. The first step in that > official tutorial is to compile nginx and that compiled nginx then becomes > the system's main nginx. It replaces whatever was installed via "dnf > install nginx". Yes? > > Hope this makes sense. Have I correctly understood how nginx compilation > works? Appreciate any pointers. > > Thank you. > > > _______________________________________________ > nginx mailing > listnginx@nginx.orghttp://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx > >
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