Installation, upgrade and uninstallation
in Nginx mode

Basic tasks

• Installing Passenger
• Upgrading Passenger
• Disabling Passenger without uninstalling it
• Uninstalling Passenger
• Moving Passenger to a different directory

Advanced tasks

• Non-interactive, automatic, headless installs or upgrades
• Cryptographic verification of installation files
• Customizing the compilation process
• Upgrading from open source to Passenger Enterprise
• Installing Passenger as a normal or dynamic Nginx module
• Creating an Nginx init script

Background info

• Migrating from Passenger 4 to 5
• Supported operating systems and languages
• APT repository (.deb packages)
• YUM repository (.rpm packages)

Related guides

• In-depth: Integration modes (Nginx vs Apache vs Standalone)