The latest NGINX version on Directadmin server

If you want to have the latest version of NGINX installed on your server with Directadmin here is what you can do about it.

We at Poralix prepared a script which you can use for it:

build_nginx - A script (the first edition) to install a mainline version of NGINX with custombuild2. A version number of NGINX mainline is taken from NGINX's trac site, i.e. it's always the latest.

Installation

Here is a quick way to install it:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/
wget -O build_nginx https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poralix/directadmin-utils/master/nginx/build_nginx
chmod 755 ./build_nginx
./build_nginx

Crontask

It's even possible to run the script with a cron, on daily bases for example. Run this code to install a task into crontab:

echo "1 2 * * * root /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/build_nginx cron" >> /etc/cron.d/directadmin_custom

if you want to update a version every day. It won't upgrade NGINX, but only update information about its version and download a tar.gz file when a new version is available.

As soon as a new version of NGINX comes out and its binary is downloaded you can use custombuild native script as usual to install/update NGINX.

./build nginx

or 

./build update_versions

or stick to the custom script.

./build_nginx install

That's it.