def install_nginx(version=None, remove_default=True):
'''
Install nginx as a webserver or reverse proxy
:param str version: the version of nginx you want to have installed if it's
a different version than the repository version. E.g. 1.0.4
'''
# install from the repository to get stable version and initial config
install('nginx')
default_site = '/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default'
if remove_default and exists(default_site):
sudo('rm %s' % default_site)
restart('nginx')
# if a version is specified, install that and overwrite the repo version
if version:
stop('nginx')
run('mkdir -p src')
with cd('src'):
run('wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-%s.tar.gz' % version)
run('tar xf nginx-%s.tar.gz' % version)
# requirements for nginx
install('build-essential', 'libc6', 'libpcre3', 'libpcre3-dev',
'libpcrecpp0', 'libssl0.9.8', 'libssl-dev', 'zlib1g',
'zlib1g-dev', 'lsb-base')
with cd('nginx-%s' % version):
run('''./configure --with-http_ssl_module \\
--with-sha1=/usr/lib \\
--with-http_gzip_static_module \\
--with-http_stub_status_module \\
--without-http_fastcgi_module \\
--sbin-path=/usr/sbin \\
--conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \\
--prefix=/etc/nginx \\
--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log \\
''')
run('make')
sudo('make install')
start('nginx')