Nginx 1.2.7

February 12, 2013 · Guillaume Plessis

Today, Nginx 1.2.7 has been released with a few new features but also bugfixes merged from 1.3.x. See the full Changelog for more details.

As a consequence, Dotdeb’s packages of Nginx 1.2.7 are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” (amd64/i386) with the following changes :

Logs are now rotated on a weekly basis.
Passenger has been upgraded to the 3.0.19 version.
The chunkin-nginx-module, nginx-lua and nginx-upload-module modules got minor updates.

As usual, if you want to know which module has been included in each Nginx flavor, you just have to look at this document.

LukasAMD February 13, 2013
Did you add realip module to naxsi flavor?! Thank you very much! Last time I tried to use naxsi + vhosts by reverse proxy, but without this it wasn’t “nice” :)
- Guillaume Plessis February 13, 2013
  @LukasAMD : yes, the realip module has been added to nginx-naxsi
Thomas February 13, 2013
websites went down tried “service nginx restart” Restarting nginx: nginxnginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
First time it’s happened using nginx-extras
- Thomas February 13, 2013
  seems like it put in a default site config even when selected no, removed it and started just fine :)
ZeldoR February 13, 2013
I run a update on my Debian Box to the new version and find this strange behavior. I try to explain this bug.
First the Installation error: http://pastebin.com/8f4qHAE0
After a second run of apt-installation there was still nginx 1.2.6 running. I killed all PIDs of them manually. As next step I tried to start nginx /etc/init.d/nginx start
Result: no output and nginx was not running.
As next step I checked my configuration manually:
root@nginx:~# /usr/sbin/nginx -t nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok nginx: [emerg] open() “/var/log/nginx/domain/subdomains/kernel/access.log” failed (2: No such file or directory) nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
The rc-script was modified and don’t show any error messages if they occur.
I compare init scrips of both version (1.2.7 and 1.2.6) Version 1.2.6 shows my mistake and version 1.2.7 is silent.
Raul February 13, 2013
After installing, I cannot reload config files and cannot update any server blocks. Added a new server block, issue the reload and not working. Removing an existent server block is the same.
Raul February 13, 2013
Actually, issuing the restart command also doesn’t work. fix is here: http://ibnuyahya.com/nginx-emerg-bind-to-0-0-0-080-failed-98-address-already-in-use/
ActiNetwork February 15, 2013
Merci pour cette mise à jour :) Perfect.
Daniel15 February 16, 2013
Does this include the upgrade to the cache-purge module?
- Guillaume Plessis February 16, 2013
  @Daniel : take a look at the Google document I’m talking about in the post, you’ll have your answer :)
- Guillaume Plessis February 16, 2013
  @Daniel : yes, it has been upgraded using the git submodule’s HEAD (ab3df50)
dpdt1 February 17, 2013
if pid variable in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf is somewhat different than : pid /var/run/nginx.pid .., (eg. more spaces between “pid” and “/var/run/nginx.pid”) then /etc/init.d/nginx fails with message : nginx: invalid option: “/var/run/nginx.pid”. problem is in statement : PID=$(awk -F’[ ;]’ ‘/[^#]pid/ {print $2}’ /etc/nginx/nginx.conf). result of awk is different in that case and init.d nginx script fails… dont know how you evaluate this…, just mentioning… thx,
- Guillaume Plessis February 17, 2013
  @dpt1 : thanks for the mention. Could you please fill a bug report (https://github.com/gplessis/dotdeb-nginx/issues) so that I don’t forget to investigate. Thanks.
mig5 February 18, 2013
Hi,
I see Debian released a security update for Nginx yesterday, disabling SSL compression due to CVE-2012-4929
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2627
I read that nginx upstream had disabled SSL compression in 1.2.2: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700426
Just wanted to confirm if the dotdeb.org also has this fix already or will a fix be released?
Thanks!
- Guillaume Plessis February 18, 2013
  @mig5 : thanks for the notice. Dotdeb packages have this fix as of the 1.2.2 upstream version.
textbook February 20, 2013
Hello Guillaume,
I was wondering if you could tell me all of the configure options if i want to compile nginx from source to be like your nginx-full package?
I LOVE your work…. your packages are so helpful. But i recently switched to wheezy… and none of your packages work, even if i have a newer version of their dependencies.
I cannot move back to squeeze though… so i would like to try re-creating your nginx-full package.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
- Guillaume Plessis February 20, 2013
  @textbook : thanks for using Dotdeb. You’ll find the configure options of the nginx-full package here : https://github.com/gplessis/dotdeb-nginx/blob/master/debian/rules
textbook February 20, 2013
This is excellent…. thank you so much Guillaume.
Do you have the same thing for php?
I would like to use the latest php5-fpm, php5-apc, php5-cli, and php5-geoip.
But wheezy does not have any packages available that use the latest versions.
Thank you in advance!
- Guillaume Plessis February 20, 2013
  @textbook : feel free to consult those git repositories : https://github.com/gplessis/dotdeb-php5 https://github.com/gplessis/dotdeb-php5-pecl
textbook February 21, 2013
Guillaume, Please forgive my ignorance… but i am a novice with php, and i do not know how i would use those git repos to install the php components i need… in the same way that your packages provide.
- Guillaume Plessis February 21, 2013
  @textbook : FYI, Dotdeb packages for Squeeze work on Wheezy
textbook February 21, 2013
I could not get them to work under any circumstances.
The packages said that they need very specific dependencies that are not available in wheezy…. allow me to paste what i am getting when trying to install dotdeb packages… if you do not mind. And btw… i sincerely appreciate your help in any form.
root@black~ $ aptitude install php5-fpm The following NEW packages will be installed: php5-fpm{b} 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2,724 kB of archives. After unpacking 8,548 kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-fpm : Depends: libdb4.8 which is a virtual package. Depends: libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8m-1) which is a virtual package. Depends: php5-common (= 5.4.11-1~dotdeb.0) but it is not going to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
```
 Keep the following packages at their current version:
```
1. ```
php5-fpm [Not Installed]
```
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
- Guillaume Plessis February 21, 2013
  @textbook : I forgot to mention that you’ll have to keep squeeze-related entries in your sources.list to satisfy all the dependencies. You’ll certainly find some tuto on the Web.
textbook February 21, 2013
Thank you.
Alex February 21, 2013
Who have last deb package of nginx for Debian Lenny ?
- Guillaume Plessis February 23, 2013
  @Alex : take a look at http://archives.dotdeb.org/dists/lenny/nginx/
Andrew Ryno February 24, 2013
Not sure if I’m doing something completely wrong, but I setup dotdeb, installed nginx 1.2.7 from that, and it would not start. I wound up removing the IPv6 line from the default server block, which then allowed me to load the default page via my browser. However, the second I added php5-fpm or a new config file, nothing works (even after I removed both). nginx isn’t listening on port 80, it doesn’t even look like any processes are running, yet running “service nginx status” say it’s running.. has anyone else been having problems like this? I’ve tried installing it multiple times on multiple servers with the same result.
David February 26, 2013
@Andrew – don’t know if this will help, but after much trial and error, I ended up purging all things nginx, installing nginx-full, then installing nginx-extras, then deleted the default config. Then it started. I’m sure much of that was unnecessary, but I was at the point of installing Apache… I’ve been down all day.
Jason February 26, 2013
Has anybody encountered this Nginx error upon trying to start or restart Nginx?
Starting nginx: nginxnginx: invalid option: “5”
I’ve tried rebooting 3x and did ’nginx remove’ and then ‘sudo apt-get install nginx-full’ and still get this same error. I did install beanstalkd and memcached recently, but they are up and running, so I don’t think it’s related to that. I think it’s just an nginx issue after this last upgrade.
- Jason February 26, 2013
  I got it working, though by guess and check so I hope I didn’t screw the pooch on it.
  I opened /etc/init.d/nginx found start() and stop() which both had “5” in it. After trying to change to the value to 4, I still had the error, but this time with “invalid option: 4”. So I deleted the number. And it works! Here’s the code from /etc/init.d/nginx in case it helps future googlers. http://pastebin.com/BLHzKtfR
Daniel Hahler February 27, 2013
@Guillaume: it seems like the “listen” line for IPv6 would benefit from or rather require a “ipv6only=on”. See http://stackoverflow.com/a/15101745/15690.
- Guillaume Plessis February 27, 2013
  @Daniel Hahler : yes, I’ll fix it in the next release, so that users can use the default config without any warning.
Daniel Hahler February 27, 2013
@Guillaume: it’s not just a warning, but nginx fails to start!
Simon Gebert March 1, 2013
This upgrade broke ssl for me. If I run “openssl s_client -connect 127.0.0.1:443”, I always get the error: CONNECTED(00000003) write:errno=104. I reverted to version 1.2.6 of nginx-passenger from the archives and everything works. Do I have to change my nginx configuration to make it work with 1.2.7??
poiuty March 15, 2013
Nginx not write to the log error. Just do not print it out on the console. Then install nginx from the official repository. Got the console error.
nginx: [emerg] could not build the server_names_hash, you should increase either server_names_hash_max_size: 512 or server_names_hash_bucket_size: 64
Other errors not display too. FIX please.
- poiuty March 15, 2013
  http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?21,237403,237405
Nando April 3, 2013
nginx 1.2.8 was released
- Guillaume Plessis April 3, 2013
  I know
- Guillaume Plessis April 3, 2013
  /donate/