2 minor patches do adjust freenginx name

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Wed Apr 8 07:55:33 UTC 2026


Hello!

On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 09:32:17AM -0300, Fabiano Furtado wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 11:00 PM Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 06, 2026 at 10:16:52AM -0300, Fabiano Furtado wrote:
> >
> > > There are 2 minor patches attached to this email to adjust nginx name
> > > to freenginx name.
> >
> > The binary is named "nginx", and the same name is used in these
> > two places.  The "freenginx" name can be seen in the
> > NGINX_VER_BUILD macro as printed by ngx_show_version_info().
> 
> Sorry to bother you, but could you explain why the freenginx binary is
> called "nginx"?

The freenginx project aims to continue original nginx development 
and uses the same binary name, as well as other relevant names, 
such as configuration file name and OpenSSL appname.  In 
particular, this makes switching to freenginx mostly trivial for 
existing nginx installations, including binary upgrade working 
flawlessly.

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Maxim Dounin
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