Re: nginx and lua for web scripting

[Marc Balmer <marc@...>]

Am 23.09.12 02:43, schrieb g.lister:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I was wondering what are people doing for Lua web development and if
> anyone is using nginx as the HTTP server and how is Lua setup in this case.

We are using the lighttpd server and FastCGI.  The core of the (web)
application is written in C that does handle the authentication stuff,
connecting to the database and dispatching the web request to Lua
functions (which we call handlers).  To decode the GET/PUT requests we
use the Neotonic ClearSilver library, for which we made a Lua interface,
and to render webpages and templates we then use our own proxy and lt
(Lua templates) modules.

In the long run we want to get rid of ClearSilver, but I don't yet have
a HTTP request decoder.

> 
> I have found WSAPI and luafcgid (I am planning FastCFI with a socket on
> Linux) is their another option which one is better?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Kind regards,
> George
>