Re: How to patch and/or upgrade Nginx from source in production environment?

2022-10-13 Thread edflecko
Thank you for all of your input! Ed On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 5:54 PM PGNet Dev wrote: > > My primary driving reason for considering the deployment of Nginx from > source is to use ModSecurity WAF with Nginx. I'm under the impression that > it's much easier to use ModSecurity with Nginx when comp

Re: How to patch and/or upgrade Nginx from source in production environment?

2022-10-13 Thread edflecko
My primary driving reason for considering the deployment of Nginx from source is to use ModSecurity WAF with Nginx. I'm under the impression that it's much easier to use ModSecurity with Nginx when compiled from source. My only goal of installing patches would simply be to keep the install up to d

Re: How to patch and/or upgrade Nginx from source in production environment?

2022-10-13 Thread edflecko
Thank you both for your replies. While my server would be a production environment, it would only consist of the single Ubuntu server and the single instance of Nginx that would be running no more than 10-12 websites. The server is virtual, so any needed changes would be scheduled and the server w

Re: How to patch and/or upgrade Nginx from source in production environment?

2022-10-13 Thread edflecko
Thank you for your reply! I should have mentioned that I'm running in an Ubuntu environment so I'm not sure if that makes much difference? I like the idea of installing from source because I can control all of the options, but I'm wondering if it's worth going that route in a production environmen

How to patch and/or upgrade Nginx from source in production environment?

2022-10-13 Thread edflecko
I'm curious how many people run Nginx in a production environment that was installed from source and not a package. For those people who are running Nginx in this manner, how do you keep Nginx patched when patches are released? How do you upgrade your existing Nginx in your production environment