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I'm trying to install nginx and no matter what I do, nginx can't seem to find my openssl path. It looks like it's searching for files that don't exist in any of the openssl directories. Below is my make output. I've tried to specify various paths for nginx to look in for openssl.

[root@server nginx-0.8.54]# make
make -f objs/Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/nginx-0.8.54'
cd /usr/local/ssl 
 && make clean 
 && ./config --prefix=/usr/local/ssl/.openssl no-shared no-threads 
 && make 
 && make install LIBDIR=lib
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/ssl'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/ssl'
make[1]: *** [/usr/local/ssl/.openssl/include/openssl/ssl.h] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/nginx-0.8.54'
make: *** [build] Error 2

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

This can also occur when your nginx configure uses relative paths. It finds the libraries much more reliably if full paths from / are used instead.

Doesn't work: ./configure --with-openssl=../openssl-source

Works: ./configure --with-openssl=/home/build/src/openssl-source

./configure —with-cc-opt="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include" --with-ld-opt="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"

Running "yum install openssl-devel" seems lot easier than switching to ubuntu.

Had the same issue as the OP. I had openssl installed but nginx could find it when compil but the pointer to libssl-devel helped me

I can't quite recall exactly what the issue was here, but I'm assuming that a symlink to /usr/local/ssl (or openssl?) to wherever openssl actually resides would solve the issue. I haven't had any problems installing nginx with SSL support in Ubuntu 10.04 with the default OpenSSL. So I would recommend anyone struggling with this to try that out.

Also, you probably need the correct dev packages installed. Here is what I typically installing prior to install nginx..

2 apt-get update
3 apt-get install gcc
4 apt-get install g++
5 wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7/Python-2.7.tgz
6 wget ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.12.tar.gz
7 wget http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz
8 ls
9 gzip -d pcre-8.12.tar.gz 
10 gzip -d zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz 
11 gzip -d Python-2.7.tgz 
12 tar -xvf zlib-1.2.5.tar 
13 cd zlib-1.2.5
14 ./configure 
15 make
16 ls
17 Makefile
18 ls
19 ./configure 
20 make
21 sudo apt-get install build-essential
22 make
23 make install
24 cd ..
25 ls
26 tar -xvf pcre-8.12.tar 
27 cd pcre-8.12
28 ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-unicode-properties
29 make
30 make install
31 cd ..
32 ls
33 tar -xvf Python-2.7.tar 
34 apt-get install openssl
35 cd Python-2.7
36 apt-get install libssl-dev
37 apt-get install libperl-dev
38 ./configure --help
39 ./configure --enable-ipv6
40 make
41 make install

If you are trying to build nginx with macOS and openssl is installed via brew, the openssl library is installed under path like: /usr/local/opt/openssl. From brew info openssl

This formula is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local,

because Apple has deprecated use of OpenSSL in favor of its own TLS and crypto libraries.

In case like this, as @Bingnan said, you can let the configure script know the include and lib paths of openssl via --with-cc-opt and --with-ld-opt:

./configure --with-cc-opt="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include" --with-ld-opt="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"

openssl headers are usually provided by libssl-dev on Ubuntu. There's also a --with-openssl=DIR ./configure option for nginx that lets you manually specify the path to openssl sources. Any reason why you're building it from source instead of using your package manager?

For Zlib

untar the zlib tar file and then configure it

Path - /opt/app/workload/nginx-test/nginx-1.8.0/zlib/zlib-1.2.8

./configure --prefix=/opt/app/workload/nginx-test/nginx-1.8.0/zlib/zlib-1.2.8
make
make install

For PCRE

Untar PCRE file then configure it

Path - /opt/app/workload/nginx-test/nginx-1.8.0/pcre/pcre-8.36

./configure --prefix=/opt/app/workload/nginx-test/nginx-1.8.0/pcre/pcre-8.36

make
make install

Just untar the file no need to configure it, Nginx will use it by it self

for openssl

Path - /opt/app/workload/nginx-test/nginx-1.8.0/openssl-1.0.1l

For Nginx

./configure --prefix=/opt/app/workload/nginx-test/nginx-1.8.0/nginx --with-pcre=/opt/app/workload/nginx-test/nginx-1.8.0/pcre/pcre-8.36 --with-zlib=/opt/app/workload/nginx-test/nginx-1.8.0/zlib/zlib-1.2.8 --with-http_ssl_module --with-openssl=/opt/app/workload/nginx-test/nginx-1.8.0/openssl-1.0.1l