Thanks guys. just so I have my terminology straight... I know for sure nginx-auth-ldap module is a third party module but do you consider --with-openssl=/home/worun/openssl-0.9.8y --with-http_ssl_module also a third party module ? and how about --with-pcre=/home/worun/pcre-8.35 ? Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,252597,252675#msg-252675