Nginx-ee

Automated Nginx compilation from sources with HTTP/3 QUIC and additional modules support

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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
• HTTP/3 QUIC Support
• Brotli Support
• TLS v1.3 support
• OpenSSL or LibreSSL
• Cloudflare zlib
• Automated nginx updates cronjob
• Security hardening and performance optimization enabled with proper GCC flags
• An option to omit nginx configuration, allowing usage of third party devops tools

Additional Third-party modules

Nginx current mainline release : v1.27.0 with HTTP/3 QUIC

Nginx current stable release : v1.26.1 with HTTP/3 QUIC

• ngx_cache_purge
• headers-more-nginx-module
• ngx_brotli
• memc-nginx-module
• ngx-devel-kit
• ngx_http_redis
• 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 :

• naxsi WAF
• nginx-rtmp-module

Compatibility

Operating System

Recommended

• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble)
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy)
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal)
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic)
• Debian 10 (Buster)
• Debian 11 (Bullseye)
• Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Also compatible

• Raspbian 10 (Buster)
• Raspbian 11 (Bullseye)

Applications

LEMP Stack

• EasyEngine v3
• WordOps

Plesk

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

HTTP/3 QUIC

Full support of HTTP/3 QUIC is only available with LibreSSL. More information here.

Usage

One-Step Automated Install

Default settings :

• mainline release with HTTP/3
• openssl from system
• 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 HTTP/3 with naxsi

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

Options available

Nginx build options :

• --stable : compile Nginx stable release with HTTP/3
• --full : Naxsi + 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 :

• --naxsi : compile nginx with naxsi
• --rtmp : compile nginx with rtmp module
• --libressl : compile nginx with LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL

Extras :

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

Roadmap

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

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

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