WSAPI error when running cgilua.fcgi

Question

I'm trying to configure a webserver to use Lua to create web applications. I use lighttpd as my default webserver to run static websites and PHP blogs, so, my obvious choice was lighttpd.

Searching in Google and in this list history, I see that would be easy to configure, in fast steps, that I follow:

• Install cgilua with luarocks
• Install wsapi and wsapi-fcgi with luarocks as dependence
• Configure few lines in lighttpd.conf
• Restart lighttpd

When I did this, lighttpd stop to serve my websites. Then I run cgilua.fcgi in terminal, and always I receive this error message:

WSAPI error in application: /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/wsapi/common.lua:408: could not find a filename to load, check your configuration or URL stack traceback: [C]: in function 'error' /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/wsapi/common.lua:408: in function 'adjust_non_wrapped' /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/wsapi/common.lua:422: in function 'normalize_paths' /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/wsapi/common.lua:665: in function (tail call): ? [C]: in function 'xpcall' /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/wsapi/common.lua:257: in function 'run_app' /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/wsapi/common.lua:284: in function 'run' /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/wsapi/fastcgi.lua:40: in function 'run' ...al/lib/luarocks/rocks/cgilua/5.1.4-1/bin/cgilua.fcgi:33: in main chunk [C]: ?

Anybody can help me? What I'm doing wrong? Thank you

Answer 1

One solution that I found was use simple cgi configuration on lighttpd. No cgilua, no fastcgi, no dependencies, just enabled cgi module in lighttpd and added:

cgi.assign = (
    ".lua"  => "/usr/bin/lua",
)

But I've been read that cgi is too slow, and FastCGI is better. "Pure cgi" is too bad to use? I think so simple and fast to configure that I'm thinking use this approach to start my web application.

Any suggestions?