How To Install Nginx From Source on FreeBSD 11.1

To Install Nginx From Source on FreeBSD 11.1

Nginx is an open-source, high-performance web server that delivers static content by using the system resources. It also hosts several highest traffic internet sites. Nginx is packed with several features and some of them are listed below.

• It serves static and index files
• Reverse proxy with caching
• Supports SSL
• Supports rewrite module
• Supports gzip, XSLT, SSI and image resizing filters

It is so simple to install Nginx from its source on FreeBSD, and the method to install it is covered here.

Installation

First, we need to Install dependencies that are required for the installation.

root@linuxhelp11:~ # pkg install libxslt libxml2 libxml2 GeoIP  openssl-devel pcre
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.txz: 100%    944 B   0.9kB/s    00:01   
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100%    6 MiB   6.4MB/s    00:01   
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD repository update completed. 31152 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 2 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
New packages to be INSTALLED:
    GeoIP: 1.6.12
    openssl-devel: 1.1.0h_1
Number of packages to be installed: 2
The process will require 13 MiB more space.
3 MiB to be downloaded.
Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/2] Fetching GeoIP-1.6.12.txz: 100%  131 KiB 134.1kB/s    00:01   
[2/2] Fetching openssl-devel-1.1.0h_1.txz: 100%    3 MiB   3.5MB/s    00:01   
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/2] Installing GeoIP-1.6.12...
[1/2] Extracting GeoIP-1.6.12: 100%
[2/2] Installing openssl-devel-1.1.0h_1...
[2/2] Extracting openssl-devel-1.1.0h_1: 100%
Message from GeoIP-1.6.12:
GeoIP does not ship with the actual data files. You must download
them yourself! Please run:
# /usr/local/bin/geoipupdate.sh

Now download the nginx source file from its official site through the terminal as follows.

root@linuxhelp11:~ #  wget https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.14.0.tar.gz
--2018-05-06 18:43:09--  https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.14.0.tar.gz
Resolving nginx.org (nginx.org)... 95.211.80.227, 206.251.255.63, 2606:7100:1:69::3f, ...
Connecting to nginx.org (nginx.org)|95.211.80.227|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1016272 (992K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ' nginx-1.14.0.tar.gz' 
nginx-1.14.0.tar.gz             100%[=====================================================> ] 992.45K   475KB/s    in 2.1s   
2018-05-06 18:43:12 (475 KB/s) - ' nginx-1.14.0.tar.gz'  saved [1016272/1016272]

After downloading, extract the downloaded files.

root@linuxhelp11:~ # tar -xzf nginx-1.14.0.tar.gz

After Extracting let' s list the files inside the extracted directory.

root@linuxhelp11:~ # cd nginx-1.14.0/
root@linuxhelp11:~/nginx-1.14.0 # ll
total 800
-rw-r--r--  1 user  user  286953 Apr 17 20:52 CHANGES
-rw-r--r--  1 user  user  437286 Apr 17 20:52 CHANGES.ru
-rw-r--r--  1 user  user    1397 Apr 17 20:52 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--  1 user  user      49 Apr 17 20:52 README
drwxr-xr-x  6 user  user     512 Apr 17 20:52 auto/
drwxr-xr-x  2 user  user     512 Apr 17 20:52 conf/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 user  user    2502 Apr 17 20:52 configure*
drwxr-xr-x  4 user  user     512 Apr 17 20:52 contrib/
drwxr-xr-x  2 user  user     512 Apr 17 20:52 html/
drwxr-xr-x  2 user  user     512 Apr 17 20:52 man/
drwxr-xr-x  9 user  user     512 Apr 17 20:52 src/

Now to configure Nginx installation procedure, run the configuration script command with the path of nginx files for installation.

root@linuxhelp11:~/nginx-1.14.0 #  ./configure --prefix=/etc/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --user=nginx --group=nginx
checking for OS
 + FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE amd64
checking for C compiler ... found
 + using Clang C compiler
 + clang version: 4.0.0 (tags/RELEASE_400/final 297347) (based on LLVM 4.0.0)
checking for -Wl,-E switch ... found
checking for gcc builtin atomic operations ... found
checking for C99 variadic macros ... found
checking for gcc variadic macros ... found
checking for gcc builtin 64 bit byteswap ... found
checking for unistd.h ... found
checking for inttypes.h ... found
checking for limits.h ... found
checking for sys/filio.h ... found
checking for sys/param.h ... found
checking for sys/mount.h ... found
checking for sys/statvfs.h ... found
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 nginx pid file: " /var/run/nginx.pid" 
 nginx error log file: " /var/log/nginx/error.log" 
 nginx http access log file: " /etc/nginx/logs/access.log" 
 nginx http client request body temporary files: " client_body_temp" 
 nginx http proxy temporary files: " proxy_temp" 
 nginx http fastcgi temporary files: " fastcgi_temp" 
 nginx http uwsgi temporary files: " uwsgi_temp" 
 nginx http scgi temporary files: " scgi_temp" 

Now, let' s compile the configured files.

root@linuxhelp11:~/nginx-1.14.0 # make
make -f objs/Makefile
cc -c -pipe  -O -Wall -Wextra -Wpointer-arith -Wconditional-uninitialized -Wno-unused-parameter -Werror -g -I src/core  -I src/event  -I src/event/modules  -I src/os/unix  -I /usr/local/include  -I objs  -o objs/src/core/nginx.o  src/core/nginx.c
cc -c -pipe  -O -Wall -Wextra -Wpointer-arith -Wconditional-uninitialized -Wno-unused-parameter -Werror -g -I src/core  -I src/event  -I src/event/modules  -I src/os/unix  -I /usr/local/include  -I objs  -o objs/src/core/ngx_log.o  src/core/ngx_log.c
cc -c -pipe  -O -Wall -Wextra -Wpointer-arith -Wconditional-uninitialized -Wno-unused-parameter -Werror -g -I src/core  -I src/event  -I src/event/modules  -I src/os/unix  -I /usr/local/include  -I objs  -o objs/src/core/ngx_palloc.o  src/core/ngx_palloc.c
cc -c -pipe  -O -Wall -Wextra -Wpointer-arith -Wconditional-uninitialized -Wno-unused-parameter -Werror -g -I src/core  -I src/event  -I src/event/modules  -I src/os/unix  -I /usr/local/include  -I objs  -o objs/src/core/ngx_array.o  src/core/ngx_array.c
cc -c -pipe  -O -Wall -Wextra -Wpointer-arith -Wconditional-uninitialized -Wno-unused-parameter -Werror -g -I src/core  -I src/event  -I src/event/modules  -I src/os/unix  -I /usr/local/include  -I objs  -o objs/src/core/ngx_list.o  src/core/ngx_list.c
cc -c -pipe  -O -Wall -Wextra -Wpointer-arith -Wconditional-uninitialized -Wno-unused-parameter -Werror -g -I src/core  -I src/event  -I src/event/modules  -I src/os/unix  -I /usr/local/include  -I objs  -o objs/src/core/ngx_hash.o  src/core/ngx_hash.c
cc -c -pipe  -O -Wall -Wextra -Wpointer-arith -Wconditional-uninitialized -Wno-unused-parameter -Werror -g -I src/core  -I src/event  -I src/event/modules  -I src/os/unix  -I /usr/local/include  -I objs  -o objs/src/core/ngx_buf.o  src/core/ngx_buf.c
cc -c -pipe  -O -Wall -Wextra -Wpointer-arith -Wconditional-uninitialized -Wno-unused-parameter -Werror -g -I src/core  -I src/event  -I src/event/modules  -I src/os/unix  -I /usr/local/include  -I objs  -o objs/src/core/ngx_queue.o  src/core/ngx_queue.c
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objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_auth_basic_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_access_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_limit_conn_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_limit_req_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_geo_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_map_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_split_clients_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_referer_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_rewrite_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_proxy_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_fastcgi_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_uwsgi_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_scgi_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_memcached_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_empty_gif_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_browser_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_upstream_hash_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_upstream_ip_hash_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_upstream_least_conn_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_upstream_keepalive_module.o  objs/src/http/modules/ngx_http_upstream_zone_module.o  objs/ngx_modules.o  -lcrypt -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre -lz  -Wl,-E
sed -e " s|%%PREFIX%%|/etc/nginx|"   -e " s|%%PID_PATH%%|/var/run/nginx.pid|"   -e " s|%%CONF_PATH%%|/etc/nginx/conf/nginx.conf|"   -e " s|%%ERROR_LOG_PATH%%|/var/log/nginx/error.log|"   <  man/nginx.8 >  objs/nginx.8

After compiling build installation as follows.

root@linuxhelp11:~/nginx-1.14.0 # make install
make -f objs/Makefile install
test -d ' /etc/nginx'  || mkdir -p ' /etc/nginx' 
test -d ' /usr/sbin'   || mkdir -p ' /usr/sbin' 
test ! -f ' /usr/sbin/nginx'   || mv ' /usr/sbin/nginx'   ' /usr/sbin/nginx.old' 
cp objs/nginx ' /usr/sbin/nginx' 
test -d ' /etc/nginx/conf'   || mkdir -p ' /etc/nginx/conf' 
cp conf/koi-win ' /etc/nginx/conf' 
cp conf/koi-utf ' /etc/nginx/conf' 
cp conf/win-utf ' /etc/nginx/conf' 
test -f ' /etc/nginx/conf/mime.types'   || cp conf/mime.types ' /etc/nginx/conf' 
cp conf/mime.types ' /etc/nginx/conf/mime.types.default' 
test -f ' /etc/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params'   || cp conf/fastcgi_params ' /etc/nginx/conf' 
cp conf/fastcgi_params  ' /etc/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params.default' 
test -f ' /etc/nginx/conf/fastcgi.conf'   || cp conf/fastcgi.conf ' /etc/nginx/conf' 
cp conf/fastcgi.conf ' /etc/nginx/conf/fastcgi.conf.default' 
test -f ' /etc/nginx/conf/uwsgi_params'   || cp conf/uwsgi_params ' /etc/nginx/conf' 
cp conf/uwsgi_params  ' /etc/nginx/conf/uwsgi_params.default' 
test -f ' /etc/nginx/conf/scgi_params'   || cp conf/scgi_params ' /etc/nginx/conf' 
cp conf/scgi_params  ' /etc/nginx/conf/scgi_params.default' 
test -f ' /etc/nginx/conf/nginx.conf'   || cp conf/nginx.conf ' /etc/nginx/conf/nginx.conf' 
cp conf/nginx.conf ' /etc/nginx/conf/nginx.conf.default' 
test -d ' /var/run'   || mkdir -p ' /var/run' 
test -d ' /etc/nginx/logs'   || mkdir -p ' /etc/nginx/logs' 
test -d ' /etc/nginx/html'   || cp -R html ' /etc/nginx' 
test -d ' /var/log/nginx'   || mkdir -p ' /var/log/nginx' 

Now the installation is completed, and you can check for nginx version using the following command.

root@linuxhelp11:~/nginx-1.14.0 # nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/1.14.0

root@linuxhelp11:~ # adduser
Username: nginx
Full name: nginx
Uid (Leave empty for default):
Login group [nginx]:
Login group is nginx. Invite nginx into other groups? []:
Login class [default]:
Shell (sh csh tcsh bash rbash nologin) [sh]:
Home directory [/home/nginx]:
Home directory permissions (Leave empty for default):
Use password-based authentication? [yes]:
Use an empty password? (yes/no) [no]:
Use a random password? (yes/no) [no]:
Enter password:
Enter password again:
Use an empty password? (yes/no) [no]: yes
Lock out the account after creation? [no]:
Username   : nginx
Password   : < blank> 
Full Name  : nginx
Uid        : 1002
Class      :
Groups     : nginx
Home       : /home/nginx
Home Mode  :
Shell      : /bin/sh
Locked     : no
OK? (yes/no): yes
adduser: INFO: Successfully added (nginx) to the user database.
Add another user? (yes/no): no
Goodbye!

root@linuxhelp11:~ # chown -R nginx:nginx /etc/nginx

root@linuxhelp11:~ # vim /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nginx

. /etc/rc.subr
name=" nginx" 
rcvar=" nginx_enable" 
command=/usr/sbin/nginx
_pidprefix=" /var/run/nginx" 
pidfile=" ${_pidprefix}.pid" 
required_files=/etc/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
start_cmd=" test_start" 
stop_cmd=" test_stop" 
status_cmd=" test_status" 
test_start() {
         ${command}
}
test_status() {
        if [ -e ${pidfile} ]  then
                echo ${name} is running...
        else
                echo ${name} is not running.
        fi
}
test_stop() {
        if [ -e ${pidfile} ]  then
                kill `cat ${pidfile}` 
        else
                echo ${name} is not running?
        fi
}
load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command " $1" 

root@linuxhelp11:~ # echo ' nginx_enable=" YES" '  > >  /etc/rc.conf

root@linuxhelp11:~ # service nginx start

root@linuxhelp11:~ # service nginx status
nginx is running...