As some of you have already noticed, LuaRocks 2 broke the current Kepler installer. André and I decided that instead of making a new Kepler installer it would be a better idea to make an installer for WSAPI itself, to bury the idea of “Kepler” as a web framework and leave it as just the name for the project that built WSAPI and other modules. LuaRocks 2.0.1 has just been released, so I took the lid off the new versions of the modules that I released last week and released a new version of WSAPI itself, version 1.2. This is the changelog:
- Adds time-based collection of Lua states to FCGI and Xavante launchers
- Adds
wsapilauncher script, to start a Xavante WSAPI server - Fixed
undefined media typeerror - Added
is_emptyutility function to check if a string isnilor'' - Fixed bug with empty bodies in
wsapi.xavante, and added full http status codes to responses - Changing order of evaluating
PATH_TRANSLATEDandSCRIPT_FILENAME, to make non-wrapped launchers work in Apache OSX - Reload support for
load_isolated_launcher
I have also created a new rock for WSAPI, wsapi-xavante. The wsapi.xavante connector now belongs to this rock, and, most importantly, it has a new wsapi script that runs a Xavante instance configured for WSAPI applications and static files. For example, the following line starts a Xavante instance on port 80 and using /var/www as document root:
See wsapi --help for configuration options, including logging and reloading of Lua states for each request.
The wsapi rock still has the base WSAPI modules, as well as the CGI launcher, wsapi.cgi, and the wsapi-fcgi rock has the wsapi.fastcgi module and the wsapi.fcgi launcher.
There are also a installer that replaces the old kepler-install. It is wsapi-install-1.2, available standalone here and as an all-in-one tarball (for offline installation) here. This installer works like the old kepler-install, but installs Lua 5.1.4, LuaRocks 2.0.1, and the wsapi-xavante rock and its dependencies. The old kepler-* rocks won’t be updated for LuaRocks 2.
I am preparing a release of Orbit that includes the Orbit Pages launcher and examples that used to be part of the Kepler rocks. The same should happen with the CGILua launchers that were included as partof Kepler.