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sorin
Asked: 2013-12-20 04:13:26 +0800 CST

How to get nginx with spdy on Ubuntu without having to compile it?

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I observed that none of the included nginx blends has the spdy module enabled and I don't want to manually compile it for that.

I am looking for a apt repository solution but I wasn't able to find one yet.

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2 Answers

  1. Ubuntu's nginx-full, nginx-core and nginx-extras packages comes with the compiler flag --with-http_spdy_module. Other builds, -light and -naxsi doesn't. The below still applies if you want to compile the version from upstream.

    Ok, first of all:

    The ngx_http_spdy_module module provides experimental support for SPDY. Currently, draft 3.1 of SPDY protocol is implemented.

    This module is not built by default, it should be enabled with the --with-http_spdy_module configuration parameter.

    So, as you can see, is difficult that somebody will provide nginx with some characteristics that will likely not work well (I didn't). In those cases you really only solution (which is easy nonetheless) compile from sources. In an nutshell you can create your own version of nginx using:

    apt-get source nginx
cd nginx*
editor debian/rules

    Here you look for the line config.status.full: config.env.full and append along all the configure options --with-http_spdy_module. Save your file.

    sudo apt-get build-dep nginx
sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev
dpkg-buildpackage

    Done, your deb ready for installation is there. You can create a PPA that do this stuff for you too. As you can see you take more time looking for a repository than compiling it yourself.

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  2. Best Answer

    Recently, Ubuntu has started to build nginx with spdy by default. Since Ubuntu 12.04 is an LTS release, it doesn't include these recent changes. However, there is an Nginx ppa that does includes releases of Nginx that have the spdy module enabled. You can add it by running:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
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