My personal configuration for nginx

This repo holds all the files and instructions needed to install nginx in a Debian box.

1.- Install all dependencies for nginx

 # aptitude install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libssl-dev zlib1g-dev build-essential

2.- Download the latest stable version

 $ wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.2.7.tar.gz

3.- Extract it

 $ tar -xvzf nginx-1.2.7.tar.gz

4.- Install it

 $ cd nginx-1.2.7
 $ ./configure --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --with-http_ssl_module
 $ make
 # make install

To enable debug just configure with --with-debug flag:

 $ ./configure --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --with-http_ssl_module

5.- Fetch nginx init-script file, copy into /etc/init.d and update rc.d

 # wget https://github.com/satanas/nginx-conf/raw/master/nginx
 # mv nginx /etc/init.d/
 # chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx
 # insserv nginx

6.- Create folders to organize your config files (apache-way)

 # mkdir /usr/local/nginx/sites-available
 # mkdir /usr/local/nginx/sites-enabled

7.- Fetch and copy the global restrictions file (used for individual server block)

 # wget https://github.com/satanas/nginx-conf/raw/master/global-restrictions.conf
 # mv global-restrictions.conf /usr/local/nginx/conf

8.- Edit the nginx config file at your pleasure (use nginx.conf.example as template)

9.- Put the config files to your sites in /usr/local/nginx/sites-available and make symlinks from there to /usr/local/nginx/sites-enabled to include them into nginx.conf. Use php-site.conf.example as template for PHP based sites.

Besides, make sure you have a line like this before the last closing bracket on your nginx.conf:

     include   /usr/local/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

10.- Enjoy!

Optional: Install PHP 5

1.- Install all dependencies for php

 # aptitude install php5-cgi php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd php5-idn php-pear php5-imagick php5-imap php5-json php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-mhash php5-ming php5-ps php5-pspell php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl

2.- Fetch php-fastcgi init-script file, copy into /etc/init.d and update rc.d

 # wget https://github.com/satanas/nginx-conf/raw/master/php-fastcgi
 # mv php-fastcgi /etc/init.d/
 # chmod +x /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi
 # insserv php-fastcgi

3.- Fetch php-fastcgi config file and copy into /etc/default

 # wget https://github.com/satanas/nginx-conf/raw/master/php-fastcgi-conf
 # mv php-fastcgi-conf /etc/default/php-fastcgi

4.- Start php-fastcgi and restart nginx

 # /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi start
 # /etc/init.d/nginx restart