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Mastering NGINX

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Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781782173311

Length 320 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

NGINX

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Aivaliotis

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Mastering NGINX - Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Installing NGINX and Third-Party Modules FREE CHAPTER

2. A Configuration Guide

3. Using the mail Module

4. NGINX as a Reverse Proxy

5. Reverse Proxy Advanced Topics

6. The NGINX HTTP Server

7. NGINX for the Application Developer

8. Integrating Lua with NGINX

9. Troubleshooting Techniques

Directive Reference

The Rewrite Rule Guide

The NGINX Community

Persisting Solaris Network Tunings

Index

Chapter 8. Integrating Lua with NGINX

NGINX is extensible to handle varying use cases. In this chapter, we'll be exploring some possibilities of extending NGINX with Lua, an embedded scripting language designed for just such a purpose. The topics we'll be covering include the following:

The ngx_lua module
Integrating with Lua
Logging with Lua

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Authors (1)

Aivaliotis

Aivaliotis

Dimitri Aivaliotis is a production engineer in Silicon Valley. His career has taken him from building a Linux-based computer network for a school up through multi-datacenter, high-availability infrastructures for banks and popular websites. He has spent over a decade solving his customers' problems and learned NGINX along the way. Dimitri graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and received an MS in Management Information Systems at Florida State University.

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