Just use third party APT packages. You can either use the Phusion Passenger one: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/install_debian https://www.phusionpassenger.c

Just use third party APT packages. You can either use the Phusion Passenger one: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/install_debian https://www.phusionpassenger.com/install_debian Or the Nginx.org one: http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html Both support Debian 6 and 7, and both supply the latest Nginx stable version.