Building ngx_http_geoip2_module for CentOS 8

• CentOS nginx package git: https://git.centos.org/rpms/nginx/
• ngx_http_geoip2_module: https://github.com/leev/ngx_http_geoip2_module

Build environment

1. Install development tools

   $ sudo dnf group install "Development Tools" "RPM Development Tools"
   

2. The libmaxminddb-devel package, which is required to build the ngx_http_geoip2_module, is missing from CentOS 8.0. We need to download its source rpm package and rebuild it.

   $ rpmdev-setuptree
   $ dnf download --source libmaxminddb
   $ rpmbuild --rebuild libmaxminddb-1.2.0-6.el8.src.rpm
   $ sudo rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libmaxminddb-devel-1.2.0-6.el8.x86_64.rpm
   

3. CentOS get_sources.sh script

   $ git clone https://git.centos.org/centos-git-common.git
   $ mkdir -p ~/bin && ln -sf `pwd`/centos-git-common/get_sources.sh ~/bin
   

Rebuilding nginx rpms with the ngx_http_geoip2_module

$ sudo dnf builddep nginx
$ git clone -b c8-stream-1.16-geoip2 https://github.com/wenzhuoz/nginx-rpms.git
$ cd nginx-rpms
$ get_sources.sh -c -b c8-stream-1.16
$ rpmbuild --define "%_topdir `pwd`" -ba SPECS/nginx.spec --with geoip2

See also

• https://wiki.centos.org/Sources