Re: Update on status of mod_wombat

["Andrew Wilson" <agrwagrw@...>]

I''ve been trying out PHP and find it very, well, kludgey. So if one
were interesting in trying out Lua via mod_wombat, where would one
start, my googling around mod_wombat hasn't been very helpful as do
how to use mod_wombat. Apache setup/sample Lua scripts any hints,
pointers would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Andrew Wilson

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Brian McCallister <brianm@ning.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Petite Abeille
> <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 8, 2008, at 7:34 PM, Matthew M. Burke wrote:
>>
>>> It looks like mod_wombat (provides Lua scripting for Apache web server)
>>> will be released as a core module (i.e.  if you download the web server,
>>> you will get mod_wombat---no need to download it separately).
>>
>> Out of curiosity, how does mod_wombat compares/differs from lighty's
>> mod_magnet?
>>
>> http://redmine.lighttpd.net/wiki/1/Docs:ModMagnet
>
> Rather similar, though last I looked, ModMagnet in lighttpd was more
> about selecting nodes to proxy to.
>
> mod_wombat (probably mod_luau soon) is designed to let you write
> arbitrary apache modules (including, but not limited to content
> handlers) in lua. How lua interacts (or rather, doesn't) with threads
> makes it *very* attractive for this.
>
>> One needs to add something equivalent to nginx and Lua has the entire web
>> server market cornered :D
>
> Yes. For good reason.
>
> -Brian
>