Hello

At first, I know: nginx is not part of the "standard" pfSENSE packages list, but getting it from the port tree is possible, and I think it would be a nice addition.

It seems to me that nginx and nginx-devel have no SSL support (at least from the ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/ repo).

[u]My release:[/u] FreeBSD hostname 7.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Fri Aug 21 23:03:33 UTC 2009 sullrich@RELENG_2_0__FreeBSD_7_2-snaps.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.7 i386

[b]### nginx (stable)[/b]
# ./sbin/nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/0.6.36
configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local/etc/nginx --with-cc-opt=-I /usr/local/include --with-ld-opt=-L /usr/local/lib --conf-path=/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx-error.log --user=www --group=www --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/client_body_temp --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/proxy_temp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi_temp --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx-access.log --with-http_stub_status_module

[b]### nginix-devel[/b]
# /usr/local/sbin/nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/0.7.51
configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local/etc/nginx --with-cc-opt=-I /usr/local/include --with-ld-opt=-L /usr/local/lib --conf-path=/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx-error.log --user=www --group=www --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/client_body_temp --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/proxy_temp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi_temp --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx-access.log --with-http_stub_status_module --with-pcre

The ports were configured without SSL support (missing --with-http_ssl_module)
By the way, it would be nice to have the two below as well.

*) --without-poll_module
*) --with-http_geoip_module

Are nginx FreeBSD ports SSL not compiled because of known issues or is it just an omission?

Tks and kind regards,
P

P.S. By the way, congratulations for nginx. So far, the test I made (http only) were just amazing!

I'm not a FreeBSD expert by any means but I am managing one FreeBSD box.

On the "standard" FreeBSD port tree you can install the latest series (0.8.x) from nginx-devel (/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel) and those modules are available. However, as I said, I'm no expert, and soI don't know if you can use that port tree on the "pfSense" distribution.

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Jim Ohlstein

Ok, I managed to have the latest nginx-devel to compile with the good flags.

I installed a developer ISO, configured pfSENSE to gain Internet connectivity then fetched the ports tree:

[list]
[*] portsnap fetch extract
[*] cd /usr/ports/www/nginx-devel
[*] make depends install
[*] Select the modules to compile (the standard ones are already checked in)
[*] Amend pfSENSE lighthttpd to listen to something else than tcp/80
[*] Make sure /etc/rc.conf contains nginx_enable="YES"
[/list]

Checking that nginx is properly compiled:


# /usr/local/sbin/nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/0.8.14
configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local/etc/nginx --with-cc-opt='-I /usr/local/include' --with-ld-opt='-L /usr/local/lib' --conf-path=/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx-error.log --user=www --group=www --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/client_body_temp --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/proxy_temp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi_temp --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx-access.log [b]--with-http_geoip_module[/b] --with-http_realip_module [b]--with-http_ssl_module[/b] --with-http_stub_status_module --with-pcre

And start the daemon: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nginx start

Check it is running: sockstat -4l | grep nginx

www nginx 32292 7 tcp4 *:80 *:*
root nginx 32291 7 tcp4 *:80 *:*


And point your browser to http://<your_server_ip> ... you should see the "Welcome to nginx" message !

HTH