Compact web server with Lua support?

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Compact web server with Lua support?

Hello,

I need to find a very compact, cross-platform web server that can run Lua scripts, ie. either a regular web server like Mongoose that will forward queries to a Lua program in eg. FastCGI, or a web server itself written in Lua which will save the need to provide a separate web server.

I recently started learning about Lua so am still in the dark about what is available out there, save for the three I came accross:

Barracuda Embedded Web Server http://barracudaserver.com/ba/doc/

Xavante - Lua HTTP 1.1 Web server http://keplerproject.github.com/xavante/

Haserl http://haserl.sourceforge.net/

If someone's already done this recently, what solution would you recommend along with any tutorial/article that would get me started?

Thank you.

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Why not try Xavante, the Lua-oriented web server built by the Kepler project, which is run by many of the same people who brought us Lua?

Norman Ramsey 2010-05-18 22:47:34

I haven't found how to install Xavante yet. Can it run without installing the whole Lua SDK?

OverTheRainbow 2010-05-19 11:38:46

there is no lua sdk...

daurnimator 2010-05-19 12:05:44

For lack of a better word, I meant, the packages found at http://luabinaries.luaforge.net/ and http://code.google.com/p/luaforwindows/

OverTheRainbow 2010-05-19 12:29:36

There's also lighttpd.

lhf 2010-05-19 01:03:18

Apparently, Lighttpd supports Lua but only for mod_madgnet, as the equivalent to Apache's mod_rewrite. I don't know 1) if that's true, and if yes, 2) what the (dis)advantages are compared to a full-fledged FastCGI alternative.

OverTheRainbow 2010-05-19 11:43:21

The lighthttpd is not suitable for generating page content with Lua (script execution blocks whole server process, AFAIR). It is intended to control server logic.

Alexander Gladysh 2010-05-19 12:04:55

Yup, so I'd rather use a web server that's already written in Lua or, alternatively, a good way to run a Lua script as FastCGI that will be called by a language-agnostic web server.

OverTheRainbow 2010-05-19 12:30:39

I have not tried this myself, but there is a blog post about using Lua with nginx here.

A good and informative question btw, I hadn't heard of Haserl before :)

ponzao 2010-05-21 08:31:08

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