Compile and build Nginx with echo headers-more and lua modules

Get Nginx, modules and depencies from github.
I wanted this article to be specific.

Download these before you start

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Nginx : 
Get it from Github.

Dependencies : 
LuaJIT-2.0.4  lua2.0  lua2.1  pcre-8.42  zlib-1.2.11 

Modules : 
echo-nginx-module  headers-more-nginx-module  lua-nginx-module
ngx_devel_kit

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Steps to be followed

Run make and make install in the following directories.

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LuaJIT-2.0.4  lua2.0  lua2.1  pcre-8.42  zlib-1.2.11

Now you have to tell Nginx that where lua-2.0 and lua-2.1 are located.

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# tell nginx's build system where to find LuaJIT 2.0:
export LUAJIT_LIB=/usr/local/lib/
export LUAJIT_INC=/usr/local/include/luajit-2.0

# tell nginx's build system where to find LuaJIT 2.1:
export LUAJIT_LIB=/usr/local/lib/
export LUAJIT_INC=/usr/local/include/luajit-2.1

Go to Nginx directory and run the following commands.

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LUAJIT_LIB=/usr/local/lib LUAJIT_INC=/usr/local/include/luajit-2.0 \
./configure \
--user=nobody \
--group=nobody \
--prefix=/etc/nginx \
--sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx \
--conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \
--pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid \
--lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock \
--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log \
--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log \
--with-http_gzip_static_module \
--with-http_stub_status_module \
--with-http_ssl_module \
--with-pcre \
--with-file-aio \
--with-http_realip_module \
--without-http_scgi_module \
--without-http_uwsgi_module \
--without-http_fastcgi_module ${NGINX_DEBUG:+--debug} \
--with-cc-opt=-O2 --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib' \
--add-module=../modules/echo-nginx-module \
--add-module=../modules/headers-more-nginx-module \
--add-module=../modules/ngx_devel_kit \
--add-module=../modules/lua-nginx-module

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make install

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Test the build

To test if all this works or not

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nginx -t

if you get this message below

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nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok 
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
then the installation was successful.

Check the installed modules by running

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nginx -V

To test the echo and lua modules add these line to your nginx.conf file after location / { }

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location /echo {
        echo hello;
        echo world;
}
location /sum {
    content_by_lua_block {
        local args = ngx.req.get_uri_args();
        ngx.say(args.a + args.b)
    }
}

Restart Nginx and hit the following command to test echo

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curl "http://localhost:<your-port>/echo"

and for lua

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curl "http://localhost:<your-port>/sum/?a=10&b=20"

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