Adding and Configuring Modules

This topic is bigger than can or should be covered in this book, where we only intend to introduce and help you acquire a basic competence with a wide range of technologies and features available in/with/for Ubuntu. In this chapter, we have only set up a basic server. This will serve the needs of most people, but there are tons of other settings available for you to use in the Core module we configured in nginx.conf (see: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule) and many other configuration options for core modules and even optional modules you can add to your server.

Adding additional modules is something that must be done when Nginx is compiled, so if you need something that is not included by default in the package ...

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