On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 8:43 PM Maxim Dounin <mdou...@mdounin.ru> wrote: > > Hello! > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 01:07:40PM -0500, Larry Martell wrote: > > > I built nginx from source and it fails to start with: > > > > 2024/02/02 13:00:59 [emerg] 1961284#1961284: dlopen() > > "/usr/modules/ndk_http_module.so" failed > > (/usr/modules/ndk_http_module.so: cannot open shared object file: No > > such file or directory) in > > /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/10-mod-http-ndk.conf:1 > > > > -V shows: > > > > $ sudo /usr/sbin/nginx -V > > [...] > > > --prefix=/usr > > [...] > > > --modules-path=/usr/lib/nginx/modules > > [...] > > > ndk_http_module.so does exist in /usr/lib/nginx/modules/: > > > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/nginx/modules/ndk_http_module.so > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18688 Nov 10 2022 > > /usr/lib/nginx/modules/ndk_http_module.so > > > > Why is it looking in the wrong dir for this? > > Paths in nginx configuration file are resolved from prefix (with > the exception of various included configuration files or similar > resources, which are resolved from configuration prefix). > > Your configuration seems to contain > > load_module modules/ndk_http_module.so; > > which is resolved from /usr to /usr/modules/ndk_http_module.so. > There is no such file, hence the error. > > Note that the --modules-path configure option defines where to > install modules. It is, however, your responsibility to provide > proper paths to modules in load_module directives. The > "modules/foo.so" construct will work with the default > --modules-path, which is "modules" under prefix, but you'll have > to use something different if you've modified --modules-path to a > custom value.
Thanks so much Maxim. It was not clear at all that --modules-path does not set where it looks for modules and I have to set it with --prefix. I set that to /usr so the nginx executable would end up in /usr/sbin, but I can just copy it there after the make install. Larry _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org https://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
