Question about installation via "yum install ngix" and optional modules

AFAIK the only way is to do it at compile time, so you have to recompile nginx with the optional modules you want.

FWIW - you can see what it was compiled with by 'nginx -V'.

Thanks. nginx -V helped my a lot.

I want to add two modules to my nginx in CentOS 5:
https://github.com/gnosek/nginx-upstream-fair
http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUploadProgressModule

I previously installed nginx very simple with YUM like this:

Create the file named /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo with the following contents:
[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/centos/5/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

yum install nginx

But now I want to add these modules, i'm still new with linux.. so should I first delete the old nginx?

nginx -v

copy all code to a text editor or something, this was how my nginx was build:
--prefix=/etc/nginx/ --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi_temp --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp --user=nginx --group=nginx --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --with-file-aio --with-ipv6 --with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables'

When I remove with Yum remove nginx do I lose my nginx settings in /etc/nginx (ofcourse i will backup that directory before I run remove but always good to ask?)

yum remove nginx

and then download the gid:
git clone https://github.com/gnosek/nginx-upstream-fair.git
git clone https://github.com/masterzen/nginx-upload-progress-module.git

and then reinstall nginx with:

wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.2.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf nginx-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd nginx-1.2.0

./configure --prefix=/etc/nginx/ --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi_temp --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp --user=nginx --group=nginx --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --with-file-aio --with-ipv6 --with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables'--add-module=/nginx-upstream-fair --add-module=/nginx-upload-progress-module

make

make install

Am I forgetting something?

Yes - you should remove the package first. You shouldn't lose your /etc/nginx directory. Yum, and apt for that matter, is good about not trampling anything. Yum, for example, will save existing config files as .rpmsave.

I believe you'll need to copy the modules into the nginx source directory to compile. I've only installed via a Chef recipe, but I needed to.

Good luck.

I know @superfedya asked about installing extra modules on centos and not debian but thought i would share how i installed the modules on debian squeeze, as this might help a debian user reading this post.

I added the dot deb repos to my sources.list. Having done that i updated the system (aptitude update) and I installed nginx with additional modules using this command- aptitude install nginx-extras. This installed all the modules i wanted to install.

Hope this helps someone.

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