nginx_src

This role installs the nginx web server from sources from nginx mainline repository. The user can specify the nginx version and the nginx modules to fetch and compile.

Install

ansible-galaxy install plumelo.nginx_src

Role Variables

The variables that can be passed to this role and a brief description about them are as follows. (For all variables, take a look at defaults/main.yml)

# The nginx version to install
nginx_src_version: 1.13.3

# The path used to download and compile/build nginx 
nginx_src_build_path: '/root/nginx-src'

# A list of modules to compile with nginx
nginx_src_modules:
  - name: ngx_cache_purge
    url: https://github.com/FRiCKLE/ngx_cache_purge/archive/2.3.tar.gz
  - name: ngx_pagespeed
    url: https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/archive/v1.12.34.2-stable.tar.gz
    dynamic: true # will use --add-dynamic-module and copy the compiled module to nginx installation folder
     # module dependencies to download and add to build path
    deps:
      - name: psol
        url: https://dl.google.com/dl/page-speed/psol/1.12.34.2-x64.tar.gz

# Additional nginx compile arguments
nginx_src_args: []

# Cleanup/delete the build directory after installation
nginx_src_cleanup: true