Articles by KENNETH

Creating Installable Packages for Dynamic Modules NGINX 1.11.5 and NGINX Plus R11 introduced support for compiling dynamic modules independently of NGINX itself. This allows users of NGINX and NGINX Plus to use the official builds from the NGINX, Inc. repositories and load in the dynamic modules they need. There are several sources of dynamic modules: Official repository of prebuilt open source NGINX packages and modules Official repository of NGINX Plus packages and modules NGINX Plus Certified Modules Third‑party (community) modules This blog focuses on the use of third‑party dynamic modules with NGINX and NGINX Plus. We discuss best practices for building, deploying, and upgrading dynamic modules in a production environment. The Problem with .so Files When you compile a dynamic module, the raw output is a shared object (.so file). At startup and reload, NGINX and NGINX Plus load each of the shared objects specified by a load_module directive. [ more… ]