This article mainly covers how to install Nginx from source on Linux and enable HTTP/2, and it also compares the speed of accessing this site over HTTP/1.1 versus HTTP/2.0. 1. Building and Installing Nginx First you need to download Nginx and a few of its dependencies. Zlib compresses data when a web request is transferred, saving bandwidth; PCRE matches URLs with regular expressions for routing and dispatch; OpenSSL or LibreSSL, the secure sockets algorithm library, provides HTTPS support.

This article mainly covers how to install Nginx from source on Linux and enable HTTP/2, and it also compares the speed of accessing this site over HTTP/1.1 versus HTTP/2.0. 1. Building and Installing Nginx First you need to download Nginx and a few of its dependencies. Zlib compresses data when a web request is transferred, saving bandwidth; PCRE matches URLs with regular expressions for routing and dispatch; OpenSSL or LibreSSL, the secure sockets algorithm library, provides HTTPS support.