How to get nginx to talk with Lasso 9

I was able to get nginx to communicate with Lasso 9 with the following setup:
Mac OS X 10.6.6 (with Developer Tools installed)
Lasso 9 rev 1446
Nginx 0.8.54 (stable)

Below are the steps I took to set this up. (Note, you'll have to have the Developer Tools for Mac OS X installed.)

1. Download the nginx source code from either http://www.nginx.org/ orhttp://wiki.nginx.org/Install
2. Compile nginx from source. Below are the commands I ran, but you may want to vary the configuration for your purposes. (Each of these commands should be all on one line, and the "$> " is the prompt and not part of the command.)

$> cd ~/Downloads/nginx-0.8.54/
  
$> ./configure --without-http_autoindex_module --without-http_geo_module  
--without-http_scgi_module 
--without-http_uwsgi_module --with-http_ssl_module --user=www --group=www
  
$> make
 
$> sudo make install

This will install everything in /usr/local/nginx. Edit the configuration file /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf to have the following information:
 

worker_processes  1;
    
    events {
        worker_connections  1024;
    }
    
    http {
        include       mime.types;
        default_type  application/octet-stream;
        sendfile        on;
        keepalive_timeout  65;
    
        server {
            listen       8080;
            server_name  localhost;
    
            location / {
                root   html;
                index  index.lasso index.html index.htm;
            }
    
            error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
            location = /50x.html {
                root   html;
            }
    
            location ~ \.lasso9?$ {
                root           html;
                fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:8999;
                fastcgi_index  index.lasso;
                include        fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /lasso9direct;
                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME  /lasso9direct;
                fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_param  PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_param  Authorization $http_authorization;
                #fastcgi_pass_header  Authorization;
            }
            
            location ~ ^/lasso9(/.*)$ {
                fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:8999;
                include        fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /lasso9;
                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME      /lasso9;
                fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO $1;
                fastcgi_param  PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$1;
                fastcgi_param  Authorization $http_authorization;
                #fastcgi_pass_header  Authorization;
            }
        }
    }

1. Unlike the default apache configuration, this configuration does not stop / start lassoserver when you stop / start nginx, so you'll need to start lassoserver yourself. (I recommend talking a look at the launchd guide for Mac OS X.)
2. Start nginx with the following command:
   
    

$> sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx

1. Create a file at /usr/local/nginx/html/index.lasso with a body of '[date]'
2. Visit http://localhost:8080/ (since we set listen to 8080) and you should get the current timestamp.
    

Author: Brad Lindsay
Created: 12 Jan 2011
Last Modified: 16 Mar 2011