nginx-autoinstall

Compile and install Nginx from source with optional modules.

Compatibility

• x86, x64, arm*
• Debian 8 and later
• Ubuntu 16.04 and later

Features

• Latest mainline or stable version, from source
• Optional modules (see below)
• Removed useless modules
• Custom nginx.conf (default does not work)
• Init script for systemd (not provided by default)
• Logrotate conf (not provided by default)
• Block Nginx installation from APT using pinning, to prevent conflicts

Optional modules/features

• LibreSSL from source (CHACHA20, ALPN for HTTP/2, X25519, P-521)
• OpenSSL from source (TLS 1.3, CHACHA20, ALPN for HTTP/2, X25519, P-521)
• ngx_pagespeed (Google performance module)
• ngx_brotli (Brotli compression algorithm)
• ngx_headers_more (Custom HTTP headers)
• ngx_http_geoip2_module with libmaxminddb and GeoLite2 databases
• ngx_cache_purge (Purge content from FastCGI, proxy, SCGI and uWSGI caches)
• ngx-fancyindex (Fancy indexes module)
• nginx-dav-ext-module (nginx WebDAV PROPFIND,OPTIONS,LOCK,UNLOCK support)
• nginx-module-vts (Nginx virtual host traffic status module)
  • See install instructions: nginx-module-vts#installation
• ModSecurity from source (ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx)
  • ModSecurity-nginx (ModSecurity v3 Nginx Connector)
• HTTP/3 using Cloudflare's patch with Quiche and BoringSSL.
• testcookie-nginx-module (testcookie-nginx-module is a simple robot mitigation module using cookie based challenge/response.)
  • See example configuration testcookie-nginx-module#example-configuration
• lua-nginx-module (Embed the power of Lua into Nginx HTTP Servers)
  • luajit2 (OpenResty's maintained branch of LuaJIT)
  • ngx_devel_kit (Nginx Development Kit (NDK))

Install Nginx

Just download and execute the script :

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Angristan/nginx-autoinstall/master/nginx-autoinstall.sh
chmod +x nginx-autoinstall.sh
./nginx-autoinstall.sh

You can check configuration examples for the custom modules.

Uninstall Nginx

Just select the option when running the script :

You have the choice to delete the logs and the conf.

Update Nginx

To update Nginx, run the script and install Nginx again. It will overwrite current Nginx files and/or modules.

Update the script

The update feature downloads the script from this repository, and overwrites the current nginx-autoinstall.sh file in the working directory. This allows you to get the latest features, bug fixes, and module versions automatically.

Install Bad Bot Blocker

This option will install Nginx Bad Bot and User-Agent Blocker. (Nginx Bad Bot and User-Agent Blocker, Spam Referrer Blocker, Anti DDOS, Bad IP Blocker and Wordpress Theme Detector Blocker)

See additional steps to add a cron job for automatic updating, customization and testing in the link above.

Headless use

You can run the script without the prompts with the option HEADLESS set to y.

HEADLESS=y ./nginx-autoinstall.sh

To install Nginx mainline with Brotli:

HEADLESS=y \
NGINX_VER=2 \
BROTLI=y \
./nginx-autoinstall.sh

To uninstall Nginx and remove the logs and configuration files:

HEADLESS=y \
OPTION=2 \
RM_CONF=y \
RM_LOGS=y \
./nginx-autoinstall.sh

All the default variables are set at the beginning of the script.

Log file

A log file is created when running the script. It is located at /tmp/nginx-autoinstall.log.

LICENSE

GPL v3.0