You might be interested to know that NginX can even embed Lua internally as a scripting language in the configuration[1]. As for your goals of connecting NginX

You might be interested to know that NginX can even embed Lua internally as a scripting language in the configuration[1]. As for your goals of connecting NginX to serve your Lua project, well that's quite simple really. Unlike Apache or Lighttpd, NginX is not an application server. NginX is only a reverse proxying HTTP server that speaks HTTP, FastCGI, and UWSGI. To connect your Lua application to NginX, your Lua application will either need to speak HTTP, FastCGI, or UWSGI. I don't know anything about Lua so I can't really help you figure out which is best, but in terms of setting up with NginX, it mostly just changes which flavor of pass you will use. [1]- http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule