I am deploying a rails app using ubuntu, nginx, & passenger.
I have rails & passenger installed properly. So, I go to run:
rvmsudo passenger-install-nginx-module
This runs all the way through and tells me it was successful. However, I run nginx -v and it tells me that it is not installed. During Passenger's installation process, I specified it to use /etc/nginx instead of /opt/nginx. I can't continue with my application deployment because the following command won't work (unrecognized service)
sudo service nginx start
Wondering if anyone has encountered, or understands this issue.
If you specified /etc/nginx as prefix then your Nginx is installed in /etc/nginx/sbin/nginx. I think you meant to overwrite the system's Nginx, but that's actually not what you have done: you've only installed a completely seperate Nginx installation, into /etc/nginx. So now you have two instances:
/usr/sbin/nginx, which uses config file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
/etc/nginx/sbin/nginx, which uses config file /etc/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
Are you on Debian or Ubuntu? If so, then the easiest way to overwrite your system's Nginx with a Phusion Passenger-enabled Nginx is not to use passenger-install-nginx-module, but to use the Debian packages provided by Phusion Passenger.
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Introduction
From NGINX version 1.9.11 and upwarts, a new feature is introduced: dynamic modules. With dynamic modules, you can optionally load separate shared object files at runtime as modules – both third-party modules and some native NGINX modules. (source)
My setup and the problem
I have NGINX installed from the mainline (currently 1.9.14) so it is capable to use dynamic modules. It has also the module I want dynamicly enabled:
nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.9.14
built by gcc 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1)
built with OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/etc/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --modules-path=/usr/lib/nginx/modules ... --with-http_geoip_module=dynamic ...
Note the --with-http_geoip_module=dynamic which loads the module I need (dynamically).
Unfortunately, the documentation is lacking (some details) and I am unable to set this up.I have an existing NGINX installation (not from source). But so far as I can understand I just need to build the module, place the generated module file in the right NGINX folder and enable it in the config file.
What I tried so far
I tested this on a different machine (with the same configuration, but not a production machine), but I don't see the ngx_http_geoip_module.so file.
The commands I used:
wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.9.14.tar.gz
tar -xzf nginx-1.9.14.tar.gz
cd nginx-1.9.14/
./configure --with-http_geoip_module=dynamic
The questions
Is it a problem that I try to build the module on a system that has
NGINX installed not from source?
Why is there no .so file generated by my commands?
I had the same question, and #vladiastudillo answer was the missing piece I needed.
First add the nginx stable repo:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
Then run apt update:
sudo apt-get update
And get the nginx geoip module:
sudo apt-get install nginx-module-geoip
This will download and load the module to /usr/lib/nginx/modules
To load the nginx module,
open nginx.conf:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
add add below in the main context:
load_module "modules/ngx_http_geoip_module.so";
The module will be loaded, when you reload the configuration or restart nginx.
To dynamically “unload” a module, comment out or remove its load_module directive and reload the nginx configuration.
Found this to be slightly different on Amazon Linux 2016.09, Amazon Linux 2016.03 after performing yum update.
You can confirm this ahead of time by using this command on your ec2 instance sudo yum search nginx-mod-http-geoip and you will see an N/S matched: nginx-mod-http-geoip entry in the response with specifics of nginx-mod-http-geoip.x86_64 : Nginx HTTP geoip module
In these cases, the installed nginx version will be 1.10.1. When this is true, you can simple install the nginx geoip module from Amazon's existing yum repo via:
sudo yum install nginx-mod-http-geoip
Then associate the module with your nginx.conf and placing this line in the main context
include /usr/share/nginx/modules/mod-http-geoip.conf;
(note this is subtly different from the main answer - in aws you have an entry in nginx.conf pointing to another *.conf file which then points to the *.so file)
If you are using docker nginx:latest this module is already included in the image as such you only need specify load_module as such:
"/usr/lib/nginx/modules/ngx_http_geoip_module.so";
You also need to create a geoip folder in your nginx mapped volume.
Though the databases seem to no longer been updated or available and geoip2 modules are not included. So you many need to google...
I had the same issue, you have to install the http_geoip_module lib for your ubuntu version with:
$ sudo apt-get install nginx-module-geoip
I'm configuring an nginx server to stream using rtmp.
As I just found out I have different nginx installations.
One is located on /etc/nginx (the old one, and the one that is running by default), and other one it's on /usr/local/nginx.
I want to make a symbolic link somewhere so I can define that the server executes the one located at /usr/local
Doing some more reading, I realized that I had 2 nginx was because I installed one with apt-get and a newer version from source. I uninstalled with apt-get purge. Now what I need to find out is how to set the nginx installed from source as default system.
The nginx installed from source is up and running, but I can't do a restart by any means.
/usr/local/nginx/sbin$ sudo ./nginx -s stop
/usr/local/nginx/sbin$ sudo ./nginx
Did the trick.
Okay, so I had nginx 1.4.6 running on ubuntu 13.10 without any problems.
I tried to update nginx to 1.6.0 via this url (http://leftshift.io/upgrading-nginx-to-the-latest-version-on-ubuntu-servers)
Now nginx is not running and not willing to start (no reaction at all). nginx -v gives "nginx: command not found" as a result. So looks like nginx can't be found.
I looked around here and on other sites, but wasn't able to find the solution. So, if anyone can.. plz do..
As this was a server without any active tools or software I decided to remove and reinstall nginx.
I used this answer: How can I restore /etc/nginx?
QUOTE:
To recreate it, first uninstall using purge to remove even configuration files and records:
sudo apt-get purge nginx nginx-common nginx-full
then reinstall:
sudo apt-get install nginx
After these two commands, nginx was up and running again. I can now use my backup to upload the predefined .vhosts files to sites-enabled again.
How can I install and enable the file upload and upload progress module on nginx with the Laravel Homestead box on Vagrant?
I believe all you need to do, like it was mentioned above, is log in with ssh to your box and install the nginx-extras package. So:
Got to your Homestead directory.
Do 'vagrant ssh'
Once in do 'sudo apt-get install nginx-extras'
Restart nginx with 'sudo service nginx restart'
Check for the module in the output of 'sudo nginx -V'. Messy but you should see 'nginx-upload-progress' somewhere near the end of the output.
You can do everything via ssh. Read more detail about using ssh in Homestead at here.
I have installed a Gitlab on a brand new Ubuntu (10.04) and it is working almost correctly. Gitlab is reachable on HTTP, I can push/pull data via git to the server. There is one thing missing though, the activity feed is not updating. So I thought there is something wrong with the git hooks. I completely followed the installation process from Gitlab except I'd like to use Passenger to run Nginx in order to deploy multiple apps.
I was running the the sudo -u gitlab -H bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production to see if everything is set up correctly, but it said, Redis is not running. ps aux says, redis-server is up. So it is not the git hooks. Gitlab docu says, restart the gitlab service to solve that problem. In this case I get an error which I think is the problem I need to solve:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/gitlab restart
Error, unicorn not running!
My question is, how can I get around this problem? How can I run unicorn, I thought the gitlab service would start it? Am I not using Nginx? Before I start reinstalling the whole thing firstly without using Passenger, I thought I might ask the question here beforehand.
As mentioned by the OP pabera, nginx and mysql must be started, for the other components of GitLab (redis, unicorn, and now sidekiq) to run properly.
The official /etc/init.d/gitlab is here.
I have my own version of gitlabd (here), because I manage sidekiq in my own script, and I don't need to run the script as root.
You can see the run order for all the services in this script:
ssh
Apache and/or NGiNX
mysql
redis
GitLab (which will start unicorn and sidekiq)
Kind of a poke in the dark...
In the GitLab installation.md README is states:
"
Start your GitLab instance:
sudo service gitlab start
# or
sudo /etc/init.d/gitlab restart
"
I did the first AND the second and got this exact error. However, I skipped the "or" and continued to the Nginx commands and it seems to work.
Hope this helps!