# Install Nginx on Mac OS from source
_no Homebrew required_

## 1. Download Nginx
```bash
$ cd /usr/local/src
$ curl -OL http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.12.2.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf nginx-1.12.2.tar.gz && rm nginx-1.12.2.tar.gz
```

## 2. Download the PCRE library
The PCRE library distribution (version 4.4 — 8.41) needs to be downloaded from the PCRE site and extracted. The rest is done by nginx’s ./configure and make. PCRE is required for the [http_rewrite_module](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_rewrite_module.html), and also for regular expressions support in the location directive.

```bash
$ curl -OL https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/pcre-8.41.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf pcre-8.41.tar.gz && rm pcre-8.41.tar.gz
```
## 3. Configure Nginx
See the full list of `./configure` options: http://nginx.org/en/docs/configure.html.

```sh
$ cd nginx-1.12.2/
```

### Compile nginx without SSL support

```bash
$ ./configure --with-pcre=../pcre-8.41/ 
```

### with SSL support

Download OpenSSL sources and extract:

```bash
$ curl -OL https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.0.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf openssl-1.1.0.tar.gz && rm openssl-1.1.0.tar.gz 
```

Compile Nginx:

```sh
$ cd ../nginx-1.12.2/
$ ./configure --with-pcre=../pcre-8.41/ --with-http_ssl_module --with-openssl=/usr/local/src/openssl-1.1.0
```

## 4. Install Nginx

```bash
$ [sudo] make && make install
```

Add the nginx binary to `$PATH`:

```bash
export PATH="/usr/local/nginx/sbin:$PATH"
```