My nginx conf looks like this:
include /usr/share/nginx/modules/mod-http-geoip.conf;
server {
}
server {
}
I had installed mod-http-geoip via sudo yum install nginx-mod-http-geoip
and i have these:
/usr/share/nginx/modules/mod-http-geoip.conf:
load_module "/usr/lib64/nginx/modules/ngx_http_geoip_module.so";
/usr/lib64/nginx/modules/ngx_http_geoip_module.so
The error I get:
2018/07/09 09:37:14 [emerg] 9552#0: "load_module" directive is not allowed here in /usr/share/nginx/modules/mod-http-geoip.conf:1
This is my nginx -V :
[root@ip-172-31-45-46 modules]# nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.12.1
built by gcc 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11) (GCC)
built with OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips 26 Jan 2017
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/share/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --modules-path=/usr/lib64/nginx/modules --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/client_body --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/proxy --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/fastcgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/uwsgi --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/scgi --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/lock/subsys/nginx --user=nginx --group=nginx --with-file-aio --with-ipv6 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_v2_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_xslt_module=dynamic --with-http_image_filter_module=dynamic --with-http_geoip_module=dynamic --with-http_sub_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_degradation_module --with-http_slice_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_perl_module=dynamic --with-http_auth_request_module --with-mail=dynamic --with-mail_ssl_module --with-pcre --with-pcre-jit --with-stream=dynamic --with-stream_ssl_module --with-google_perftools_module --with-debug --with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' --with-ld-opt=' -Wl,-E'
Note that the above had "--with-http_geoip_module=dynamic" argument
Can someone point what im missing?
I followed Peter Jones' answer on this post: How to enable dynamic module with an existing NGINX installation
I also tried: - Putting load_module "/usr/lib64/nginx/modules/ngx_http_geoip_module.so"; in the first line of my .conf file. - putting load_module "/usr/lib64/nginx/modules/ngx_http_geoip_module.so"; inside the server { }
All giving me the same error, "load_module" directive is not allowed here
Do I need to run ./configure command, make or anything?
Based on all the information so far, you have installed nginx from EPEL repository. While there's nothing wrong with that, I would suggest to install it from nginx's own YUM repository as it's:
So make sure you install nginx properly.
Every nginx distribution tends to have their own convention for structuring files. But nginx configuration rules are the same across the board. So:
include /usr/share/nginx/modules/mod-http-geoip.conf;
server {
}
server {
}
... isn't really possible, as server
block should go within http
section.
The load_module
should be placed at the top level (beginning of the file) within /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
.
The EPEL nginx package convention is to include those load_module
directives from each module's .conf
file:
# Load dynamic modules. See /usr/share/nginx/README.dynamic.
include /usr/share/nginx/modules/*.conf;
After a module is installed, it drops a .conf file with load_module
to load it.
Make sure that include
goes at the top of your nginx configuration and not inside any section.