I had this same idea until I found about: http://openresty.org/en/ http://openresty.org/en/ https://github.com/Mashape/kong/ https://github.com/Mashape/kong/ M

I had this same idea until I found about: http://openresty.org/en/ http://openresty.org/en/ https://github.com/Mashape/kong/ https://github.com/Mashape/kong/ Making a full API on nginx via lua sounds crazy but it appears that people do it.