How to install OpenResty
OpenResty, also called “ngx_openresty”, is a web application server based on the Nginx core, it also contains lot of 3rd party Nginx modules and most of its system dependencies. OpenResty is not an Nginx fork, it’s just a software bundle. It has been mostly maintained by Yichun Zhang?6?0 and since 2011 it has been supported by CloudFlare.
Why OpenResty?
According to it’s author, OpenResty allows developers to build high-performance web applications using Lua programming language to script existing Nginx C modules, ideal to support high traffic apps.
Install OpenResty
Software requirements
- perl 5.6.1+
- libreadline
- libpcre
- libssl
Linux systems: ensure that ldconfig is in your PATH environment.
For Debian and Ubuntu distributions:
apt-get install libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libpcre3-dev libssl-dev perl make
For Fedora and RedHat distributions:
yum install readline-devel pcre-devel openssl-devel
For FreeBSD users
You need to install the following ports:
devel/gmake security/openssl devel/pcre
Download OpenResty
Go to http://openresty.org/ and get the lastest version. At this time, this is the last version:
wget http://openresty.org/download/ngx_openresty-1.5.8.1.tar.gz.
Untar, build and install OpenResty
tar xzvf ngx_openresty-1.5.8.1.tar.gz cd ngx_openresty-1.5.8.1/ ./configure --with-luajit make make install
Available configure options:
./configure --prefix=/opt/openresty --with-luajit --without-http_redis2_module --with-http_iconv_module --with-http_postgres_module -j2 --help to see more options
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