In the particular case of Nginx and Lua, the OpenResty package[1] is pretty much self contained except for libpcre. Nginx+Lua is only the core part that powers

In the particular case of Nginx and Lua, the OpenResty package[1] is pretty much self contained except for libpcre. Nginx+Lua is only the core part that powers this ecosystem. OpenResty comes with a lot of libraries for "usual web stuff", except maybe a default template system. I've been using this rather simple one [2] In the full example[3], I installed it on Mac OS (and actually found a small problem with homebrew that should be fixed soon) [1] http://openresty.org/#Download http://openresty.org/#Download [2] http://code.google.com/p/slt/ http://code.google.com/p/slt/ [3] https://github.com/mtourne/nginx_log_by_lua/ https://github.com/mtourne/nginx_log_by_lua/