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. To build ngx_openresty, you need a working perl (at least perl 5.6.x) 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-0.8.54.0.tar.gz we will eventually migrate to the openresty.org domain. 2. and then enter the ngx_openresty-0.8.54.0/ 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 \ --without-http_drizzle_module \ --with-http_iconv_module \ --with-http_postgres_module try ./configure --help to see more options. 3. build everything locally make 4. install ngx_openresty into the target directory that you specified by the --prefix option in Step 2. make install 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 0.8.54.0 release: xss-nginx-module-0.03rc2 srcache-nginx-module-0.12rc2 LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta6 upstream-keepalive-nginx-module-0.3 headers-more-nginx-module-0.14 echo-nginx-module-0.36rc2 ngx_postgres-0.8 drizzle-nginx-module-0.0.15rc9 auth-request-nginx-module-0.2 nginx-0.8.54 libdrizzle-0.8 memc-nginx-module-0.12rc1 ngx_lua-0.1.6rc2 array-var-nginx-module-0.02 set-misc-nginx-module-0.21rc2 iconv-nginx-module-0.10rc3 rds-json-nginx-module-0.11rc2 lua-5.1.4 encrypted-session-nginx-module-0.01 form-input-nginx-module-0.07rc4 ngx_devel_kit-0.2.14 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) . This module is licensed under the terms of the BSD license. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.