freenginx-custom

Iamdoubz custom freenginx config for Ubuntu 22.04. I was tired of forgetting what I used to compile freenginx so I made my own repo.

Enhancements

Support for H3/QUIC
Brotli compression
Zstandard compression
GeoIP2
Headers-More
Quantum cryptography
KTLS
debug

Dependencies

There are quite a few dependencies to install. The main ones being:

build-essential
git
curl
wget
cmake
libmaxminddb
And probably others...

Additional Packages

How to download

Please use the provided script freenginx.sh. Make sure to make it executable first sudo chmod +x freenginx.sh. Then run it with ./freenginx.sh.

By default only the build steps are printed and all output goes to a log file in the build root. Options:

-v stream all build output (still logged), -q print only errors and the final summary
-r DIR build root, -j N parallel jobs, -l FILE log file, -c run make clean first
--no-brotli, --no-zstd, --no-geoip2, --no-headers, --no-ktls, --no-debug
--asm build OpenSSL with its assembly optimizations (AES-NI etc.); the default is no-asm
Versions can be set from the environment: V_NGINX=1.31.6 V_QSSL=3.6.5 ./freenginx.sh

If a step fails, the script stops and prints the end of the log.

Make a backup of your existing binary

Type which nginx and make a copy i.e. sudo cp /usr/sbin/nginx /usr/sbin/nginx_apt. NOTE: if you have not installed nginx, you do not have to do this step. NOTE: this script for freenginx is built as a drop in replacement for nginx.

Install newly compiled binary

cd /path/to/buildroot/nginx-release-1.29.4
sudo make install
Check nginx sudo nginx -t
Reload nginx sudo nginx -s reload
Verify new version sudo nginx -v should output nginx version: freenginx/1.29.4 (w/GeoIP2,Brotli,H3,Headers-More,Quantum,debug,KTLS)
Optionally free up disk space with ./freenginx.sh --purge (same -r and versions as the build). It refuses to run if the built binary doesn't match /usr/sbin/nginx.