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Nginx can't find PCRE library on Ubuntu Server

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Problem

I have been trying to get a Passenger and Nginx setup to work with php files but I am having problems with the PCRE regular expressions library. Install all went fine so I'm assuming it found the libraries at that point but now when I include a regex for PHP files in my nginx.conf file, I get the f…

Error Output

nginx: [emerg] using regex "\.php$" requires PCRE library in /home/dev/nginx/conf/nginx.conf:59

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Fix for: Nginx can't find PCRE library on Ubuntu Server

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The problem occurs because pcre was not installed on your system before you compiled nginx. Now that you have it the proper libraries, you should be able to recompile the nginx and run with no pcre related errors.

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