Upgrade NGINX in Linux v15

[Robert Juric]

I have a client who needs to upgrade nginx for PCI compliance. The version included with the linux distro is 1.6.1 and they need to be running at least 1.8.1, while current version is 1.12.1.

Is there any straightforward way to upgrade NGINX without breaking all of 3CX?

 

[cobaltit]

You are asking the wrong question but the answer is no. 3CX doesn't control the distribution and per this https://packages.debian.org/jessie/nginx the current version of nginx distributed with Debian Jessie is 1.6.2. So you can certainly ugrade to that yourself (apt-get update; apt-get upgrade) but beyond that this is a Debian question not a 3CX question.

 

[cobaltit]

Just a follow-up. It looks like nginx is updated to 1.10.3 in Debian Stretch. There is also this article about putting 3CX on Debian Stretch but the recommendation is to wait until it is officially supported. So hopefully in a few weeks time you'll have a support 3CX install that is PCI compliant.

 

[Robert Juric]

We installed 3CX from the provided Linux ISO. Since the included version included with Debian Jessie is only 1.6.2, it won't upgrade via apt-get (it says it is running the latest). To upgrade nginx I would have to add the nginx apt source directly, or manually install.

I wasn't asking about the possibility of upgrading the package. As you said, that is a Debian question. My question was whether or not that would have any repercussions within 3CX. In this I was refererring to other dependencies or web interface source/config files.

We were hoping others may have ran into this in the past, surely we are not the first the attempt to run 3CX in a PCI compliant environment.

 

[cobaltit]

You just may be the first to run 3CX in a PCI compliant environment. I'm assuming others segment it off from any network that needs to be compliant. But again, I would venture Debian Stretch will be be supported soon which should resolve the issue.