ngx_openresty is a full-fledged web application server by bundling the standard nginx core, lots of 3rd-party nginx modules, as well as most of their external dependencies. This bundle is maintained by us, agentzh and chaoslawful, and sponsored by Taobao.com, Alibaba Group. Because most of the nginx modules are developed by the bundle maintainers, it can ensure that all these modules are played well together. The bundled software components are copyrighted by the respective copyright holders. A quick note to Debian and Ubuntu users: You're recommended to install the following packages using apt-get before installing this bundle: apt-get install libreadline-dev libpcre3-dev libssl-dev perl A quick note to Fedora/RedHat users: You're recommended to install the following packages using yum before installing this bundle: yum install readline-devel pcre-devel openssl-devel A quick note to Mac OS X (Darwin) users: You're recommended to install prerequisites PCRE using some package management tool, like Homebrew: brew install pcre Alternatively you can install PCRE from source all by yourself :) To build ngx_openresty, you need a working perl (perl 5.6.0 or better) in your PATH environment, and then follow the following steps: 1. download the latest ngx_openresty tarball can be downloaded from http://agentzh.org/misc/nginx/ngx_openresty-0.8.54.5.tar.gz we will eventually migrate to the openresty.org domain. 2. and then enter the ngx_openresty-0.8.54.5/ directory, and type the following command to configure: ./configure by default, --prefix=/usr/local/openresty is assumed. You can specify various options, as in ./configure --prefix=/opt/openresty \ --with-luajit \ --without-http_drizzle_module \ --with-http_iconv_module \ --with-http_postgres_module try ./configure --help to see more options. For Solaris, it's common to install libraries like OpenSSL to /lib, so when it complaints about OpenSSL and you have indeed already installed it, specify the --with-ld-opt='-L/lib' option. 3. build everything locally make Note that, "make -jN" may not work at least for FreeBSD's "bsdmake"; use gmake (i.e., GNU make) instead or avoid using the jobserver feature with your make. 4. install ngx_openresty into the target directory that you specified by the --prefix option in Step 2. make install Then you can start your server this way: /usr/local/openresty/nginx/sbin/nginx -p /path/to/your/server/root -c /path/to/your/nginx.conf assuming you're using the default "prefix", i.e., /usr/local/openresty, in Step 2. For bundle maintainers: The bundle's source is at the following git repository: https://github.com/agentzh/ngx_openresty To reproduce the bundle tarball, just do make at the top of the bundle source tree. The following packages are bundled in the 0.8.54.5 release: LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta7 array-var-nginx-module-0.02 auth-request-nginx-module-0.2 drizzle-nginx-module-0.0.15rc9 echo-nginx-module-0.36rc3 encrypted-session-nginx-module-0.01 form-input-nginx-module-0.07rc4 headers-more-nginx-module-0.15rc1 iconv-nginx-module-0.10rc3 libdrizzle-0.8 lua-5.1.4 memc-nginx-module-0.12rc1 nginx-0.8.54 ngx_devel_kit-0.2.17 ngx_lua-0.1.6rc9 ngx_postgres-0.8 rds-json-nginx-module-0.11rc2 redis2-nginx-module-0.07rc1 set-misc-nginx-module-0.21 srcache-nginx-module-0.12rc4 upstream-keepalive-nginx-module-0.3 xss-nginx-module-0.03rc2 REPORT BUGS You're very welcome to report issues on GitHub: https://github.com/agentzh/ngx_openresty/issues COPYRIGHT & LICENSE The bundle itself is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Copyright (c) 2011, Taobao Inc., Alibaba Group ( http://www.taobao.com ). Copyright (c) 2011, Yichun "agentzh" Zhang (章亦春) . Copyright (c) 2011, Xiaozhe "chaoslawful" Wang (王晓哲) . 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