About this Nginx

This version of Nginx is customised in a number of different ways:

• New: Has custom HTML XSLT transformation built in. This allows transformation of HTML documents on-the-fly via XSL (eg that which comes from Diazo for theming).
• Has a custom version of ngx_http_auth_request_module that supports a flavour of FastCGI "authorizer" that passes authorizer headers to as incoming headers to an upstream backend (proxy, uWGSI, FastCGI, etc).
• Has the ngx-fancyindex module for folder listings.
• Has the ngx_ajp_module module for talking to AJP backends.
• Has XLST support built.
• Has SPDY support built (depends on OpenSSL 1.0.1e being installed). TBA.

See the build script for details of where these dependencies live.

Building Nginx

1. Ensure Vagrant is installed.

2. Run the following:

   git clone https://github.com/jcu-eresearch/nginx-custom-build.git
   cd nginx-custom-build
   vagrant up; vagrant destroy -f
   ls x86_64
   

3. Enjoy your new RPMs, available in the current directory.

If you're not into Vagrant, then you can manually run https://github.com/jcu-eresearch/nginx-custom-build/blob/master/nginx-build.sh on your own EL 6 machine, ensuring that you have the *.patch files from this repository in your ~/rpmbuild/SPECS directory.

This Vagrant configuration will always build the latest stable version of Nginx.

Credits

• Thanks to Laurence Rowe for the patches for making HTML transformations possible at https://bitbucket.org/lrowe/nginx-xslt-html-parser