missing /etc/nginx/sites-available

[Steve Holdoway]

On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 17:46 +0100, jack linkers wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to linux and webservers, but I have a brain and C# background.
> I installed ngx_pagespeed with nginx on a fresh ubuntu 13.10 following
> this
> tutorial :https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/build_ngx_pagespeed_from_source
> I installed everything under root directory, successfully builded the
> package and started nginx :
> 
> root at xxxxx:~# service nginx configtest
> nginx: the configuration file /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf syntax
> is ok
> nginx: configuration file /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf test is
> successful
> 
> root at xxxxx:~# curl -I -p http://localhost|grep X-Page-Speed
> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
> Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
> X-Page-Speed: 1.7.30.3-3721
> 
> I have no nginx folder under /etc, therefore I can't
> edit /etc/nginx/sites-available/file_to_edit
> 
> I believe this folder comes with the package apt-get install nginx by
> default
> But how do I edit my .vhost from source build please ?
> 
> Thanks !

the sites-available / sites-enabled pair of directories is not something
that comes by default - a number of package managers have used it to
mimic the apache method.

You have installed into /usr/local/nginx, with your config stored in
conf below that, so any includes in nginx.conf are relative
to /usr/local/nginx/conf, unless you put an absolute path in there.

look at the end of the nginx.conf file, and you'll see 

include conf.d/*.conf;

or maybe 

include /usr/local/nginx/conf/conf.d/*.conf;

This is the folder where you put your vhosts.

If you want to do it the apache way, add

include sites-enabled/*

and put your config files there.

Alternatively, build your nginx to mimic the default install. I use this
script to build up with pagespeed... you may want to play with it, as
I'm using Amazon linux / 1.5.10 / openssl that supports ECDHE ciphers
and a few other odds and sods ( the starting point is the output from
nginx -V from the version that comes with your distro )

--8<--
./configure --prefix=/etc/nginx \
--sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx \
--conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \
--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log \
--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log \
--pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid \
--lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock \
--http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp \
--http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp \
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp \
--http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi_temp \
--http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp \
--user=nginx \
--group=nginx \
--with-openssl-opt="enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" \
--with-http_ssl_module \
--with-http_spdy_module \
--with-http_realip_module \
--with-http_addition_module \
--with-http_sub_module \
--with-http_gunzip_module \
--with-http_gzip_static_module \
--with-http_random_index_module \
--with-http_secure_link_module \
--with-http_stub_status_module \
--with-http_dav_module \
--with-http_xslt_module \
--with-mail \
--with-mail_ssl_module \
--with-file-aio \
--with-debug \
--with-sha1=/usr/include/openssl \
--with-md5=/usr/include/openssl \
--add-module=../ngx_pagespeed-1.7.30.3-beta \
'--with-cc-opt=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
-fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic '
--8<--

hth,

Steve
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