Re: Recommended solution to run Lua scripts with Nginx?

[Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@...>]

1 and 5 are the same solution, and you can get them already integrated
with other goodies at http://openresty.org/, but in source form only.
That being said, here are the build instructions:

>     tar xzvf ngx_openresty-VERSION.tar.gz
>     cd ngx_openresty-VERSION/
>     ./configure --with-luajit
>     make
>     make install
>
> You should have perl 5.6.1+, libreadline, libpcre, libssl
> installed into your system. For Linux, you should also
> ensure that ldconfig is in your PATH environment.

I believe that Nginx supports (Fast)CGI out of the box, no idea for uWSGI.

—Pierre-Yves


-- Pierre-Yves


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Gilles Ganault <gilles.ganault@free.fr> wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 00:46:30 +0100, Gilles Ganault
> <gilles.ganault@free.fr> wrote:
>>I'm running Debian and Nginx on a Linux appliance, and would like to
>>use Lua for form validation to avoid the fat of PHP or Python.
>
> I'm still not clear about what I should use to run basic web scripts
> in Lua through Nginx.
>
> Am I correct those are the options available?
>
> 1. Nginx + Lua
> "You can install it from source by compiling the lua-nginx-module with
> your existing Nginx. If you chose that path you will also need a Lua
> interpreter. LuaJIT-2.0.0 is recommended."
> http://blog.cloudflare.com/pushing-nginx-to-its-limit-with-lua
> 2. CGI
> 3. FastCGI
> 4. uWSGI
> 5. ngx_lua module (a.k.a. HttpLuaModule)
>
> Which solution would you recommend, preferably without having to
> recompile Nginx since this is for an ARM appliance?
>
> Thank you.
>
>