Passenger NGINX module Failing

Question

At one point I've had everything running fine on my system with NGINX, Rails, and Passenger.

Yesterday I did a fresh install of Passenger, and now passenger-install-nginx-module fails.

    /.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-3.0.13/ext/nginx/../common/libpassenger_common.a /.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-3.0.13/ext/nginx/../common/libboost_oxt.a -lstdc++ -       lpthread -lm -lpcre -lssl -lcrypto -lz
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
 "_pcre_free_study", referenced from:
  _ngx_pcre_free_studies in ngx_regex.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [objs/nginx] Error 1
make: *** [build] Error 2

This exact problem was posted yesterday on ServerFault, but I think it's more likely to be answered here (I apologize if that is a problem).

https://serverfault.com/questions/399304/cannot-install-phusion-passenger-3-0-13-with-nginx-1-2-1

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I see NGINX has a ticket for this that has been closed, but the solution did not work for me.

I did, however, get NGINX up and running again with Passenger by running a customized installation. It's obviously a compatibility issue with versions 2 and up.

First I just pulled down the NGINX source (1.0.15).

In my /usr/local

wget http://www.nginx.org/download/nginx-1.0.15.tar.gz nginx_source

Untar

 tar -xvz nginx-1.0.15.tar.gz

Then run the passenger installation. Choosing option 2 (Customized Instalation)

sudo passenger-install-nginx-module

There it prompts for where the source is /usr/local/nginx-1.0.15 and where you want it installed /usr/local/nginx (in my case).

Everything worked fine from there, anyone know of any real fixed for NGINX 2, please let me know.

Answer 2

brew install pcre

when config step also add

--with-pcre --with-ipv6 --with-ld-opt=-L/usr/local/lib

it also use with-ld-opt as homebrew,it's not perfect.

also can take a look at http://wiki.nginx.org/InstallOptions