–prefix=<path> – Nginx安装路径。如果没有指定，默认为 /usr/local/nginx。 
–sbin-path=<path> – Nginx可执行文件安装路径。只能安装时指定，如果没有指定，默认为<prefix>/sbin/nginx。 
–conf-path=<path> – 在没有给定-c选项下默认的nginx.conf的路径。如果没有指定，默认为<prefix>/conf/nginx.conf。 
–pid-path=<path> – 在nginx.conf中没有指定pid指令的情况下，默认的nginx.pid的路径。如果没有指定，默认为 <prefix>/logs/nginx.pid。 
–lock-path=<path> – nginx.lock文件的路径。 
–error-log-path=<path> – 在nginx.conf中没有指定error_log指令的情况下，默认的错误日志的路径。如果没有指定，默认为 <prefix>/logs/error.log。 
–http-log-path=<path> – 在nginx.conf中没有指定access_log指令的情况下，默认的访问日志的路径。如果没有指定，默认为 <prefix>/logs/access.log。 
–user=<user> – 在nginx.conf中没有指定user指令的情况下，默认的nginx使用的用户。如果没有指定，默认为 nobody。 
–group=<group> – 在nginx.conf中没有指定user指令的情况下，默认的nginx使用的组。如果没有指定，默认为 nobody。 
–builddir=DIR – 指定编译的目录 
–with-rtsig_module – 启用 rtsig 模块 
–with-select_module –without-select_module – 允许或不允许开启SELECT模式，如果 configure 没有找到更合适的模式，比如：kqueue(sun os),epoll (linux kenel 2.6+), rtsig(实时信号)或者/dev/poll(一种类似select的模式，底层实现与SELECT基本相 同，都是采用轮训方法) SELECT模式将是默认安装模式 
–with-poll_module –without-poll_module – Whether or not to enable the poll module. This module is enabled by default if a more suitable method such as kqueue, epoll, rtsig or /dev/poll is not discovered by configure. 
–with-http_ssl_module – 开启HTTP SSL模块，使NGINX可以支持HTTPS请求。这个模块需要已经安装了OPENSSL，在DEBIAN上是libssl 
–with-http_realip_module – 启用 ngx_http_realip_module 
–with-http_addition_module – 启用 ngx_http_addition_module 
–with-http_sub_module – 启用 ngx_http_sub_module 
–with-http_dav_module – 启用 ngx_http_dav_module 
–with-http_flv_module – 启用 ngx_http_flv_module 
–with-http_stub_status_module – 启用 “server status” 页 
–without-http_charset_module – 禁用 ngx_http_charset_module 
–without-http_gzip_module – 禁用 ngx_http_gzip_module. 如果启用，需要 zlib 。 
–without-http_ssi_module – 禁用 ngx_http_ssi_module 
–without-http_userid_module – 禁用 ngx_http_userid_module 
–without-http_access_module – 禁用 ngx_http_access_module 
–without-http_auth_basic_module – 禁用 ngx_http_auth_basic_module 
–without-http_autoindex_module – 禁用 ngx_http_autoindex_module 
–without-http_geo_module – 禁用 ngx_http_geo_module 
–without-http_map_module – 禁用 ngx_http_map_module 
–without-http_referer_module – 禁用 ngx_http_referer_module 
–without-http_rewrite_module – 禁用 ngx_http_rewrite_module. 如果启用需要 PCRE 。 
–without-http_proxy_module – 禁用 ngx_http_proxy_module 
–without-http_fastcgi_module – 禁用 ngx_http_fastcgi_module 
–without-http_memcached_module – 禁用 ngx_http_memcached_module 
–without-http_limit_zone_module – 禁用 ngx_http_limit_zone_module 
–without-http_empty_gif_module – 禁用 ngx_http_empty_gif_module 
–without-http_browser_module – 禁用 ngx_http_browser_module 
–without-http_upstream_ip_hash_module – 禁用 ngx_http_upstream_ip_hash_module 
–with-http_perl_module – 启用 ngx_http_perl_module 
–with-perl_modules_path=PATH – 指定 perl 模块的路径 
–with-perl=PATH – 指定 perl 执行文件的路径 
–http-log-path=PATH – Set path to the http access log 
–http-client-body-temp-path=PATH – Set path to the http client request body temporary files 
–http-proxy-temp-path=PATH – Set path to the http proxy temporary files 
–http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH – Set path to the http fastcgi temporary files 
–without-http – 禁用 HTTP server 
–with-mail – 启用 IMAP4/POP3/SMTP 代理模块 
–with-mail_ssl_module – 启用 ngx_mail_ssl_module 
–with-cc=PATH – 指定 C 编译器的路径 
–with-cpp=PATH – 指定 C 预处理器的路径 
–with-cc-opt=OPTIONS – Additional parameters which will be added to the variable CFLAGS. With the use of the system library PCRE in FreeBSD, it is necessary to indicate –with-cc-opt=”-I /usr/local/include”. If we are using select() and it is necessary to increase the number of file descriptors, then this also can be assigned here: –with-cc-opt=”-D FD_SETSIZE=2048″. 
–with-ld-opt=OPTIONS – Additional parameters passed to the linker. With the use of the system library PCRE in FreeBSD, it is necessary to indicate –with-ld-opt=”-L /usr/local/lib”. 
–with-cpu-opt=CPU – 为特定的 CPU 编译，有效的值包括：pentium, pentiumpro, pentium3, pentium4, athlon, opteron, amd64, sparc32, sparc64, ppc64 
–without-pcre – 禁止 PCRE 库的使用。同时也会禁止 HTTP rewrite 模块。在 “location” 配置指令中的正则表达式也需要 PCRE 。 
–with-pcre=DIR – 指定 PCRE 库的源代码的路径。 
–with-pcre-opt=OPTIONS – Set additional options for PCRE building. 
–with-md5=DIR – Set path to md5 library sources. 
–with-md5-opt=OPTIONS – Set additional options for md5 building. 
–with-md5-asm – Use md5 assembler sources. 
–with-sha1=DIR – Set path to sha1 library sources. 
–with-sha1-opt=OPTIONS – Set additional options for sha1 building. 
–with-sha1-asm – Use sha1 assembler sources. 
–with-zlib=DIR – Set path to zlib library sources. 
–with-zlib-opt=OPTIONS – Set additional options for zlib building. 
–with-zlib-asm=CPU – Use zlib assembler sources optimized for specified CPU, valid values are: pentium, pentiumpro 
–with-openssl=DIR – Set path to OpenSSL library sources 
–with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS – Set additional options for OpenSSL building 
–with-debug – 启用调试日志 
–add-module=PATH – Add in a third-party module found in directory PATH

在不同版本间，选项可能会有些许变化，请总是使用 ./configure –help 命令来检查