What web server to use for Lua web development

apache, lighttpd, lua, nginx, webserver

Solution

There are a few Lua-based webservers around:

- Xavante seems to be the most popular.

- Haserl is nice and small.

- Nanoki is not strictly a webserver, but a nice small pure Lua wiki engine worth studying. As for the Lua wikies, there is also Sputnik, which is fully featured and very flexible, but is a bit on the slow side.

- There is mod_lua (ex mod_wombat) if you prefer Apache. Looks like it would make it into the next Apache distribution as a core module.

- Note that it is not so hard to write a FastCGI Lua module.

- There is also Luv Lua MVC web-framework project (GitHub page). It is not mature yet, but may contain some interesting insights.

Update. Some more frameworks to check out:

- Luvit: http://luvit.io/ (too node-like for my taste)

- ngx_lua module for nginx: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule

- TIR for mongrel2: http://tir.mongrel2.org/

- Ophal: http://ophal.org (web platform)

- lev: https://github.com/connectFree/lev

- Turbo: https://github.com/kernelsauce/turbo

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