Lua Nginx Module

liwang2019 , 20 Aug 2026 (created 21 Jun 2011)

This module embeds the Lua interpreter or LuaJIT 2 into the nginx core and integrates the powerful Lua threads (aka Lua coroutines) into the Nginx event model by means of cosockets and Nginx subrequests.

Documentation: https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module#readme

Project page: https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module

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