Help with new NGINX build ?

Sallymelek

Need help on upgrading my current build to a new instance with brotli enabled.

phenomlab

Sallymelek Hi - no issues. Is this a clean instance with nothing else installed other than the OS ?

I’ve been reviewing this “how to” I found earlier, and it’s quite concise (ignore the Ubuntu version) - https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-install-nginx-with-brotli-compression-on-ubuntu-1804/

Or, perhaps better, this guide - you can of course ignore Step 1 - https://www.atlantic.net/dedicated-server-hosting/how-to-install-brotli-module-for-nginx-on-ubuntu-20-04/
Perhaps you’d like to take a stab at this ?

Sallymelek

phenomlab - Just the OS is installed by itself.

thanks so much, I will go with the 2nd guide.

Sallymelek

phenomlab
I dont why but getting
W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file 'nginx_1.18.0-2~focal.dsc' cou ldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

after inputting (step 4)
apt-get build-dep nginx -y

root@AceHSC-Forumv2:~# cd /usr/local/src
root@AceHSC-Forumv2:/usr/local/src# apt-get source nginx
Reading package lists... Done
Need to get 1,156 kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu focal/nginx nginx 1.18.0-2~focal (dsc) [1,50                        6 B]
Get:2 http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu focal/nginx nginx 1.18.0-2~focal (tar) [1,04                        0 kB]
Get:3 http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu focal/nginx nginx 1.18.0-2~focal (diff) [115                         kB]
Fetched 1,156 kB in 3s (445 kB/s)
dpkg-source: info: extracting nginx in nginx-1.18.0
dpkg-source: info: unpacking nginx_1.18.0.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: unpacking nginx_1.18.0-2~focal.debian.tar.xz
W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file 'nginx_1.18.0-2~focal.dsc' cou                        ldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
root@AceHSC-Forumv2:/usr/local/src#

phenomlab

Sallymelek did you use sudo on those commands ?

Sallymelek

phenomlab
nope let try to sudo now

edit: it worked with sudo

Sallymelek

@phenomlab
Do i input –add-module=/usr/local/src/ngx_brotli on that section for step 4

Sallymelek

UPDATE: just checked on the other guide, it shows where to input the code

Sallymelek

@phenomlab

I’m getting the exit status 2 despiting everything is done correctly. Stuck on

Save and close the file, then compile and build the nginx package with the following command:

dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us

root@AceHSC-Forumv2:/usr/local/src/nginx-1.18.0# sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package nginx
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.18.0-2~focal
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution focal
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Andrei Belov <defan@nginx.com>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build .
 debian/rules clean
dpkg-buildpackage: error: unknown option or argument -usnano

Use --help for program usage information.
debian/rules: 6: export: -fPIC: bad variable name
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit status 2
root@AceHSC-Forumv2:/usr/local/src/nginx-1.18.0#

phenomlab

Sallymelek where are you getting usnano from ? That doesn’t look right to me

Sallymelek

phenomlab

so after this step

Next, change the directory to the Nginx source and edit the rules file:

cd /usr/local/src/nginx-*/
nano debian/rules
Find the ‘config.env.nginx‘ and ‘config.env.nginx_debug’ section and add the following line within ./configure line:

–add-module=/usr/local/src/ngx_brotli
I ran dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us then tried "“sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us”"

getting the same exit status 2

phenomlab

Sallymelek yes, that’s expected because you haven’t used sudo. That line should read

dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us

Sallymelek

phenomlab

just used with sudo, getting the same problem exit status 2

root@AceHSC-Forumv2:/usr/local/src/nginx-1.18.0# sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package nginx
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.18.0-2~focal
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution focal
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Andrei Belov <defan@nginx.com>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build .
 debian/rules clean
dpkg-buildpackage: error: unknown option or argument -usnano

Use --help for program usage information.
debian/rules: 6: export: -fPIC: bad variable name
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit status 2
root@AceHSC-Forumv2:/usr/local/src/nginx-1.18.0#

phenomlab

Sallymelek I can’t help but think it should have been -us and was somehow entered as -usnano. Can you recheck ?

Sallymelek

it has been entered as per to guide

phenomlab

Sallymelek that’s very odd. I don’t understand why it refers to -usnano if that isn’t what was entered. In (in the SSH console window) press the up arrow key repeatedly, this cycles through a history of commands entered.

Can you check using this method to ensure that “nano” wasn’t inadvertently added to the end of the command ? It just strikes me as somewhat odd that of all the words to be entered, it’s nano, and you’re using that as an editor 🤔

Sallymelek

phenomlab

I’m sure that I have “nano” entered. So should I delete the server and recreate another new server?

phenomlab

Sallymelek Well, not exactly. Here’s your mistake

NGINX is now compiling

Build completed

NGINX installed

Life is good 🙂

Brotli confirmed working 😃