In the stock Fedora nginx package there is only one third party module included, nginx-upstream-fair. However, nginx by itself provides very poor authentication support (only file-based HTTP Basic Auth, actually). There's a PAM Auth module available for nginx (see full list of 3rd party modules here http://wiki.nginx.org/Nginx3rdPartyModules#Auth_PAM_Module). With this module been included we could have a vast number of authentication options enabled, as almost everything is supported through the PAM. My initial efforts are available by following links: Spec URL: ftp://223-223.ru/pub/fedora/specs/nginx.spec SRPM URL: ftp://223-223.ru/pub/fedora/misc/SRPMS/nginx-0.6.36-2.fc10.src.rpm
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It was a mistake for me to include upstream-fair to begin with, and I've removed it in the latest Fedora releases. I'll keep it in the EL5 release since its there already. I've decided its better to just use the plain, fully supported, upstream nginx for fedora/epel. Instead of prebuilding an nginx in generaly to satisfy all users, I have started thinking of making a project to build custom builds of nginx with various modules compiled in, and have it create rpms. I think that would be the more appropriate way to go. With all the third party module options, one combination is not going to satisfy everyone. Thoughts?
1. sounds like "yum install nginx" won't be enough if going with your proposal? 2. having a number of "nginx-<module>" packages won't be handy either (user could want more than one additional module been compiled in the same time) 3. btw, it won't be necessary to have a special project to build custom builds of nginx with (several) additional modules been enabled; you could just update nginx.conf to have per-module defines like "%define mod-pam-auth-enabled 0" with all modules been disabled by default. That would allow one to rebuild from nginx-x.y.z.src.rpm with enabling required modules.
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Closing, I'll investigate the idea of using %define <module>-enabled 0 sections and see how that works.