Nginx Nginx -V Progress

One of my goals has always been to strip away modules in Nginx that my software does not use. Since I use Wordpress and XenForo, which are pretty simple and lightweight, most of the nginx modules do not provide me any benefit.

I have gone from:

Code:

[00:20][root@xxxxxx-xxx.members.linode.com centminmod]# nginx -V nginx
version: nginx/1.13.8 built by clang 4.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_401/final)
built with LibreSSL 2.6.4 TLS SNI support enabled configure arguments:
--with-ld-opt='-lrt -ljemalloc -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib'
--with-cc-opt='-m64 -march=native -DTCP_FASTOPEN=23 -g -O3
-fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wno-sign-compare
-Wno-string-plus-int -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-parameter
-Wno-unused-const-variable -Wno-conditional-uninitialized
-Wno-mismatched-tags -Wno-sometimes-uninitialized
-Wno-parentheses-equality -Wno-tautological-compare -Wno-self-assign
-Wno-deprecated-register -Wno-deprecated -Wno-invalid-source-encoding
-Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-parentheses -Wno-enum-conversion
-Wno-c++11-compat-deprecated-writable-strings -Wno-write-strings
-gsplit-dwarf' --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx
--conf-path=/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf --with-compat
--with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_gzip_static_module
--with-http_sub_module --with-http_addition_module --with-threads
--with-http_realip_module --add-module=../ngx_cache_purge-2.4.2
--add-dynamic-module=../headers-more-nginx-module-0.33
--with-pcre=../pcre-8.41 --with-pcre-jit
--with-zlib=../zlib-cloudflare-1.3.0 --with-http_ssl_module
--with-http_v2_module --with-openssl=../libressl-2.6.4

to

Code:

[02:25][root@xxxxxx-xxx.members.linode.com centminmod]# nginx -V nginx
version: nginx/1.13.8 built by gcc 7.2.1 20170829 (Red Hat 7.2.1-1)
(GCC) built with LibreSSL 2.6.4 TLS SNI support enabled configure
arguments: --with-ld-opt='-lrt -ljemalloc -Wl,-z,relro
-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib' --with-cc-opt='-m64 -march=native
-DTCP_FASTOPEN=23 -g -O3 -fstack-protector-strong -flto -fuse-ld=gold
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security
-Wimplicit-fallthrough=0 -fcode-hoisting -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
-gsplit-dwarf' --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx
--conf-path=/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf --with-compat
--with-http_gzip_static_module --with-threads --with-http_realip_module
--with-pcre=../pcre-8.41 --with-pcre-jit
--with-zlib=../zlib-cloudflare-1.3.0 --with-http_ssl_module
--with-http_v2_module --with-openssl=../libressl-2.6.4

Now I will turn my attention to PHP and see what I can strip there.

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Understandable. I do not use advanced nginx caching or need the stats monitoring enabled personally. with-threads is enabled still.

I run simple and straight forward LEMP setup with CloudFlare. Keeps things easy to manage

 

I don't understand? The reason for removing modules that are not needed is to reduce size of nginx. I run CloudFlare business on one site with RailGun and will still see benefit from a smaller nginx footprint.

 

I know but if I am not using them no point in having them in the first place. I have thread pools enabled as well as many of the tweaks you list in that thread