Re: nginx and lua for web scripting

["g.lister" <g.lister@...>]

On 09/23/2012 09:59 AM, Marc Balmer wrote:
> 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.

That sounds interesting, thanks for sharing. Does your C code come after 
a standard FastCGI server or do you implement FastCGI itself? How is the 
development and maintenance of such a setup do you spend most of the 
time writing handlers and templates and how much do you put into the C 
part? How does it perform?

Thanks,
George

> > 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