Custom nginx - Githubissues

mrship commented 8 years ago

This allows you to set a custom NGINX_URL so you can download a later version of nginx built on Heroku.

The process for building on Heroku is a bit involved, but the steps are below (for anyone else wanting to do it):

add the latest nginx build to your repo (download from https://nginx.org/en/download.html) and deploy to Heroku
heroku run bash and un-tar.
build using:

cd <location of untar'd nginx dist>
./configure
make

scp the built binary (nginx) to another server
scp off that other server to local machine
download the tar that this buildpack installs by default (https://s3.amazonaws.com/devmynd-github/heroku-nginx-1.6.0.tar.gz)
replace the nginx binary with the newly built binary from Heroku, re-tar and upload to your own S3 bucket, making it public.
set NGINX_URL to the S3 link to the new tar
Redeploy
...
Profit!

These steps probably need a Wiki entry, or similar, that is linked to from the README.md?

tonycoco commented 8 years ago

Love this. Thanks!

miguelcobain commented 8 years ago

Can't we provide a more up to date nginx by default? Also, I've seen some buildpacks can download sources, and cache the build between deploys.

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