Nginx 1.2.8

April 7, 2013 · Guillaume Plessis

Nginx 1.2.8 has been released with 4 bugfixes. See the full Changelog for more details.

As a consequence, Dotdeb’s packages of Nginx 1.2.8 are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” (amd64/i386) with the following changes :

The config of the default vhost is now ok by default (see [Edit]).
The X-rid header module has been added to all the Nginx flavors.
The chunkin-nginx-module, headers-more-nginx-module, nginx-cache-purge, nginx-echo, nginx-lua, nginx-push-stream-module and ngx_http_substitution_filter_module modules have been updated.

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

[Edit] A minor update ( 1.2.8-1~dotdeb.2) has been published :

it now displays errors at startup, if any
the ipv6only typo has been fixed, the default vhost now works perfectly.

Tim April 7, 2013
And again thank you Guillaume! Just a small hint, a nginx -v command print out the old version 1.2.7.
mikhal April 7, 2013
nginx -v nginx version: nginx/1.2.8
- Tim April 7, 2013
  Wups, Thanks. Checked again, my upgrade was not complete…..
poiuty April 7, 2013
Again, init.d script init.d script does not show an error. https://github.com/gplessis/dotdeb-nginx/issues/32
- Cibe April 7, 2013
  In my test vps, I have get the same error, it said “invoke-rc.d: initscript nginx, action “start” failed.”
Cronner April 7, 2013
invoke-rc.d: initscript nginx, action “start” failed. dpkg: error processing nginx-extras (–configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: nginx-extras E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Terry April 7, 2013
On upgrade (nginx-full) I got the same error as Cronner.
Three other problems.
1. Despite selecting “no” to replace the old default config file, it was replaced anyway. /etc/nginx/sites-available/default was moved to /etc/nginx/default.dpkg.old
2. The new default config has a typo in it. ipv6_only instead of the correct ipv6only.
3. Fixed the above issues and did a nginx configtest. /etc/init.d/nginx configtest [ ok ] Testing nginx configuration:[….] nginx:.
Everything looks fine now so tried a restart and now I am getting:
/etc/init.d/nginx restart [….] Restarting nginx: nginxnginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] still could not bind()
Did fuser -n tcp 80 and found 4 running processes so I tried a nginx stop. Output said it stopped but it didn’t so I did a kill -9 for each pid and then a nginx restart and everything was fine.
Not really sure why this happened but at least I found a fix for it. Credit to http://ibnuyahya.com/nginx-emerg-bind-to-0-0-0-080-failed-98-address-already-in-use/
Terry
Guillaume Plessis April 7, 2013
Oh, sorry for the ipv6_only => ipv6only typo, I’m building new packages that will fix it.
- Cibe April 8, 2013
  Great! It works. Now I can start nginx. Thanks.
Slava April 8, 2013
What comman it is correct to update Nginx?
Slava April 8, 2013
from repositories
Plazik April 8, 2013
I’ve also got nginx -v 1.2.7
apt-get dist-upgrade fixed it.
Damien April 9, 2013
Still stuck on 1.2.4. This is after update/upgrade and dist-upgrade as Plazik suggested above. Any ideas?
Pawel April 14, 2013
I wonder is there any advantage of taking nginx from dotdev.org over the Nginx from official repos at nginx.org ?
- Guillaume Plessis April 14, 2013
  @Pawel : it’s up to you. With Nginx packages from Dotdeb, you can choose between 5 flavors, each with its own combination of core/official/3rd-party modules, depending on your needs.
toad April 18, 2013
Hope that a debian wheezy and ngx_slowfs_cache and nginx_lua module integrated into nginx bag.
Nico B April 24, 2013
1.4.0 is available on nginx.org With SPDY.. Yay!
- Guillaume Plessis April 24, 2013
  @Nico : yep, I’ll work on it this week-end. BTW, thanks for the donation :)
eni9889 April 25, 2013
Any chance for ngx_pagespeed in the nginx-extras version?
- Guillaume Plessis April 25, 2013
  @eni9889 : it’s only in beta (http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/04/speed-up-your-sites-with-pagespeed-for.html), but I’ll take a look at it. See https://github.com/gplessis/dotdeb-nginx/issues/30