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The title of this post is a bit stupid, but I honestly couldn’t think of any other way to write it…

When compiling nginx by hand, by default make install will push the binaries out to /usr/local/nginx and it doesn’t come with a start/stop script, understandably because it doesn’t know which OS it is going to be installed on etc etc.

Recently I was tasked with building nginx to an old Red Hat Enterprise Live 4 server with no yum installation, no nginx package in up2date and not being able to find an RPM that’s link wasn’t dead.

I’ve always felt that, being a Debian user, people think of me as only being able to use apt-get and if I’m feeling especially adventurous dpkg - to install applications. Some people know that I build .deb files in my spare time, but …