Nginx-ee

Automated Nginx compilation from sources with additional modules support

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Features • Modules • Compatibility • Usage • Wiki • Related • Credits • License

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Features

• Compile the latest Nginx releases : stable or mainline
• Install Nginx or replace Nginx package previously installed
• Nginx built-in modules selection
• Nginx Third-party modules selection
• Dynamic modules support
• Brotli Support
• TLS v1.3 support (Final)
• OpenSSL (1.1.1g or 3.0.0-dev or from system-lib) or LibreSSL
• Cloudflare HPACK
• Cloudflare zlib
• Automated nginx updates cronjob
• Compilation with GCC-7/9
• Security hardening and performance optimization enabled with proper GCC flags
• An option to omitt nginx configuration, allowing usage of third party devops tools

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Additional Third-party modules

Nginx current mainline release : v1.19.2 Nginx current stable release : v1.18.0

• ngx_cache_purge
• headers-more-nginx-module
• ngx_brotli
• memc-nginx-module
• ngx-devel-kit
• srcache-nginx-module
• ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module
• nginx_dynamic_tls_records
• ipscrub
• ngx_http_auth_pam_module
• virtual-host-traffic-status
• Cloudflare zlib
• redis2-nginx-module

For Nginx http_ssl_module :

• OpenSSL
• LibreSSL

Optional modules :

• ngx_pagespeed
• naxsi WAF
• nginx-rtmp-module

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Compatibility

Operating System

Recommended

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal)
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic)
• Debian 10 (Buster)

Also compatible

• Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan)
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial)
• Debian 9 (Stretch)
• Debian 8 (Jessie)
• Raspbian 9 (Stretch)
• Raspbian 10 (Buster)

Applications

LEMP Stack

• EasyEngine v3
• WordOps

Plesk

• 17.5.x (Onyx)
• 17.8.x
• 17.9.x
• 18.x (Obsidian)

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Usage

One-Step Automated Install

Default settings :

• mainline release
• openssl stable : 1.1.1g
• without pagespeed
• without naxsi
• without rtmp

bash <(wget -qO - vtb.cx/nginx-ee || curl -sL vtb.cx/nginx-ee)

Alternative Install Method

git clone https://github.com/VirtuBox/nginx-ee
cd nginx-ee
sudo bash nginx-build.sh

Interactive install

Interactive installation is available with arguments -i or --interactive

bash <(wget -O - vtb.cx/nginx-ee || curl -sL vtb.cx/nginx-ee) --interactive

Custom installation

Example : Nginx stable release with pagespeed and naxsi

bash <(wget -O - vtb.cx/nginx-ee || curl -sL vtb.cx/nginx-ee) --stable --pagespeed --naxsi

Options available

Nginx build options :

• --stable : compile Nginx stable release
• --full : Naxsi + PageSpeed + RTMP
• --dynamic : Compile Nginx modules as dynamic modules
• --noconf : Compile Nginx without any configuring. Useful when you use devops tools like ansible.

Optional third-party modules :

• --pagespeed: compile nginx with ngx_pagespeed latest-stable
• --pagespeed-beta: compile nginx with ngx_pagespeed latest-beta
• --naxsi : compile nginx with naxsi
• --rtmp : compile nginx with rtmp module
• --libressl : compile nginx with LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL
• --openssl-dev : compile nginx with OpenSSL 3.0.0-dev
• --openssl-system : compile nginx with OpenSSL system lib

Extras :

• --cron : setup daily cronjob to update nginx each time a new release is available

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Roadmap

• Add choice between stable & mainline release
• Add Nginx configuration examples
• Add Cloudflare HPACK patch
• Add support for servers without EasyEngine
• Add non-interactive installation
• Add automated update detection
• Add support for Plesk servers
• Add Nginx modules choice
• Add support for Debian 9
• Add openssl release choice
• Add more compilation presets
• Add support for LibreSSL
• Add noconf support
• Add support for config.inc build configuration
• Add HTTP/3 QUIC support

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Packages

You are looking for an up-to-date version of Nginx with additional modules but without having to recompile Nginx after new releases ? Feel free to use the custom Nginx package built for WordOps and available on Launchpad.net (for Ubuntu) and OpenSuseBuildService (for Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian).

Add the repository

Launchpad

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wordops/nginx-wo -uy

OpenSuseBuildService

Install steps available on Download page

Install Nginx

sudo apt install nginx-custom nginx-wo -y

Related

• WordOps
• Ubuntu-nginx-web-server
• Plesk-nginx-fastcgi-cache-template
• Nginx-Cloudflare-real-ip
• Advanced Nginx Cheatsheet

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Contributing

If you have any ideas, just open an issue and describe what you would like to add/change in Nginx-ee.

If you’d like to contribute, please fork the repository and make changes as you’d like. Pull requests are warmly welcome.

Credits

• centminmod : Nginx, Nginx modules & various other patches
• hakase : OpenSSL-patch
• Karl Chen : Nginx patches

License

MIT © VirtuBox