collinbarrett / wp-vps-build-guide

A verbose build guide for a modern, high-performance WordPress production VPS.

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Implement instructions for tuning MariaDB

Error when compiling nginx with custom OpenSSL

In step 13, where there is the current TODO regarding OpenSSL, I am trying the following...

• cd /opt/nginx/nginx-1.9.3/debian/modules/
• sudo wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2d.tar.gz
• sudo tar -xzvf openssl-1.0.2d.tar.gz
• sudo rm openssl-1.0.2d.tar.gz
• sudo nano /opt/nginx/nginx-{npsCurVer}/debian/rules
  • Under "light" version flags:
    • Delete --without-ngx_http_limit_req_module \
    • Add \ to the end of the last flag.
    • Add --with-http_spdy_module \
    • Add --add-module=$(MODULESDIR)/nginx-cache-purge \
    • Add --add-module=$(MODULESDIR)/ngx_pagespeed-1.9.32.6-beta \
    • Add --with-openssl=$(MODULESDIR)/openssl-1.0.2d
• cd /opt/nginx/nginx-1.9.3
• sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b

The build mostly completes fine. It builds for a few minutes, seemingly compiling OpenSSL fine along with it. When I build it the exact same way without the custom OpenSSL module, it builds fine using the system installed version of OpenSSL. However, with the custom OpenSSL, it eventually errors out with the following error. I have also tried the same process with several other recent releases of OpenSSL with no success.

-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -fPIE -pie -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -lpthread -lcrypt -lstdc++ /opt/nginx/nginx-1.9.3/debian/modules/ngx_pagespeed-1.9.32.6-beta/psol/lib/Debug/linux/x64/pagespeed_automatic.a -lrt -pthread -lm -lpcre /opt/nginx/nginx-1.9.3/debian/modules/openssl-1.0.2d/.openssl/lib/libssl.a /opt/nginx/nginx-1.9.3/debian/modules/openssl-1.0.2d/.openssl/lib/libcrypto.a -ldl -lz
/usr/bin/ld: /opt/nginx/nginx-1.9.3/debian/modules/openssl-1.0.2d/.openssl/lib/libssl.a(s23_meth.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/opt/nginx/nginx-1.9.3/debian/modules/openssl-1.0.2d/.openssl/lib/libssl.a: error adding symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
objs/Makefile:272: recipe for target 'objs/nginx' failed
make[3]: *** [objs/nginx] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/opt/nginx/nginx-1.9.3/debian/build-light'
Makefile:8: recipe for target 'build' failed
make[2]: *** [build] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/opt/nginx/nginx-1.9.3/debian/build-light'
debian/rules:146: recipe for target 'build.arch.light' failed
make[1]: *** [build.arch.light] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/opt/nginx/nginx-1.9.3'
debian/rules:128: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

Reconsider blocking port 80

For usability, you may not want to block port 80 here. Just blocking it would prevent users from getting to the site if they typed the domain into the address bar without remembering to include the https://. A more user-friendly solution could be to add a server block listening on 80 that returns a 301 to the https version of the requested page.

Happy to submit as a pull request if you want to go this route.

Implement instructions for log rotation and management

Dockerize

I'd like to implement dockerization into this guide in the future, but I'm still researching the pros, cons, and best practices.

Command Not found

Hi After Installing HHVM
I run This Command sudo /usr/share/hhvm/install_fastcgi.sh
But it showing me command not found
How to solve This

Please remove the ssl configuaration details from the conf files

You have kept the TLS configuration without installing the SSL certificate and haven't reloaded the server once. I had wasted two hours fixing the ssl issue