<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Droid Sans'; font-size:8pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;"><table style="-qt-table-type: root; margin-top:2px; margin-bottom:2px; margin-left:4px; margin-right:4px;"><tr><td style="border: none;">Hello,<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I know there is Emiller's Guide [0] about nginx module development but it seems really complicated for newbies, at least for me :) It seems that it's for half-experts.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>First of all, I really wonder the code structure of nginx and core modules. How does nginx interpret configuration file and when/how it initliase modules when request come? (module's initialisation is covered with Emiller's Guide but it's just shallow)<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>It would be better if someone provided a sample configuration file and explain *step-by-step* which part of code is run when a request is made. It would include, for example, gzip module and location/rewrite directive and explain "when request come, nginx checks the location (the code in foo.c), then processes it (bar.c <code sample>), gzip module is initialised and the output of request is gzipped, then sent to the client."<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I hope, I've expressed myself clearly. :)<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Nice hacking!<br>
Eren<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>[0] http://emiller.info/nginx-modules-guide.html</p></td></tr></table></body></html>