Gentoo ebuild: Nginx With Support For Upstream Fair Proxy Load Balancer

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• Gentoo ebuild: Nginx With Support For Upstream Fair Proxy Load Balancer

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Nginx is a powerful web server and therefore our choice. Unfortunately, the Gentoo ebuild is missing one essential extension: a load balancer that is querying the servers not via round robin but by their current load. Therefore, we had to extend the default ebuild to support gnosek’s upstream_fair module.

How to use this ebuild:

1. download the ebuild (currently, we only have one for nginx 1.1.12)
2. place it anywhere portage has access to (i.e. rough: /usr/portage/www-servers/nginx/)
3. run ebuild nginx-1.1.12-r2.ebuild digest
4. add upstream_fair to NGINX_MODULES_HTTP in /etc/make.conf
5. add your keywords to /etc/portage/package.keywords
6. emerge nginx
7. done.