Perfect. This is clear Thomas. Much appreciated...between Miguel's original pointer and this clarity from you I think it solves what I'm looking for. One last question: the `nginx -T` options...I'll add those to the ./configure command, yes?
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 10:55 PM Thomas Ward <tew...@thomas-ward.net> wrote: > This is where **manually compiling by hand** is the problem. You would do > the compilation in a separate directory **NOT** inside the space of the > system's control - usually I spawn new `/tmp` directories or destructable > directories in my home space. > > I'm not familiar with Fedora and the `dnf` command - but `dnf install` > installs the repositories-available-version of NGINX for Fedora's repos. > > The next steps you would take by hand are: > > (1) Install **all build dependencies and runtime dependencies** for NGINX > and the modules you're compiling dynamically. > > (2) Download the tarball to temporary space. > > (3) At the *very* least (though I suggest you go digging in the source of > Fedora's repos to get their build options, you can find them with `nginx > -T` output though) you need to do this: > > ./configure > --add-dynamic-module=/path/to/third/party/module/source/directory > make > > **This does not install nginx, this is the compiling of the binaries.** > > (4) Dig in the completed compile and find your .so file and put it in > /etc/nginx/modules (I believe that's where it is on your system, but I > can't validate that - again I'm not a Fedora user so I can't verify that's > exactly where you drop the module files themselves. > > > These're the *basic* steps - but again this will **not** install your > manually compiled nginx to overwrite what `dnf` installs - this simply > compiles everything and it's up to you to go digging to get the components > you need and put them where you need them to be for your system to > recognize them. > > > Thomas > On 1/6/21 10:47 PM, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > > 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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