OpenResty

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>In October 2007, OpenResty began at <a href="/facts/Yahoo!_China/kdAe4APj">Yahoo! China</a> as an <a href="/facts/Open_API/zKqTRswH">Open API</a> <a href="/facts/Web_service_framework/8f1CVHDX">web service framework</a> written mostly in <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> Its <a href="/facts/README/BeUhsR1I">README</a> at <a href="/facts/CPAN/MB7Iv662">CPAN</a> describes it as "A <a href="/facts/REST/4U0bMh35">REST</a> wrapper for <a href="/facts/Relational_database/pEKGmJLy">relational databases</a>" enabling "100% <a href="/facts/JavaScript/XhhIIEsl">JavaScript</a> web sites and other <a href="/facts/Rich_Internet_Application/en12v9La">RIAs</a>" via <a href="/facts/PostgreSQL/LHdXuHfl">PostgreSQL</a>.
</p><p>In September 2009, OpenResty was redeveloped at <a href="/facts/Taobao/vkYIgaky">Taobao</a> as ngx_openresty, a <a href="/facts/Lua_(programming_language)/xkBCgta0">Lua</a> <a href="/facts/Application_server/wHYtgYK5">application server</a> based upon an extended repackaging of <a href="/facts/Nginx/AlTYUuTp">nginx</a> and <a href="/facts/LuaJIT/xkBCgta0">LuaJIT</a> with <a href="/facts/Plug-in_(computing)/351Du3Wu">plug-in</a> server extension <a href="/facts/Modular_programming/sNoqKvRD">modules</a> written in <a href="/facts/C_(programming_language)/Ky2No763">C</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Tarantool/qKmbdSXr">Tarantool</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_application_servers/qltbcnCj">List of application servers § Lua</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://openresty.org/en/">Official website</a> </li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Sharwood, Simon (2016-09-20). "WTF is OpenResty? The world's fifth-most-used Web server, that's what!". The Register. Retrieved 2022-02-05. <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/20/wtf_is_openresty_the_worlds_fifthmostused_web_server_thats_what/" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/20/wtf_is_openresty_the_worlds_fifthmostused_web_server_thats_what/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Frommel, Oliver. "Die OpenResty-Distribution für Nginx » ADMIN-Magazin". Admin-Magazin (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-13. <a href="http://www.admin-magazin.de/Das-Heft/2014/01/Die-OpenResty-Distribution-fuer-Nginx" target="_blank">http://www.admin-magazin.de/Das-Heft/2014/01/Die-OpenResty-Distribution-fuer-Nginx</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Tourne, Matthieu (2012-12-08). "Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua". The Cloudflare Blog. Cloudflare. Retrieved 2022-02-05. <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/pushing-nginx-to-its-limit-with-lua/" target="_blank">https://blog.cloudflare.com/pushing-nginx-to-its-limit-with-lua/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>章, 亦春 (2012-07-09). 【开源访谈】OpenResty 作者章亦春访谈实录 [[Open Source Interview] Interview with OpenResty author Zhang Yichun]. OSChina.NET (Interview) (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on 2022-04-30. Retrieved 2022-02-06. <a href="【开源访谈】OpenResty 作者章亦春访谈实录" target="_blank">【开源访谈】OpenResty 作者章亦春访谈实录</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Zhang, Yichun. "agentzh/old-openresty: Obsolete 1st generation of OpenResty written mostly in Perl. Please check out the new OpenResty based on Nginx and Lua instead". GitHub. Retrieved 2022-02-06. <a href="https://github.com/agentzh/old-openresty" target="_blank">https://github.com/agentzh/old-openresty</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Zhang, Yichun. "OpenResty: General-purpose web service platform for web applications". CPAN. Retrieved 2022-02-06. <a href="https://search.cpan.org/dist/OpenResty" target="_blank">https://search.cpan.org/dist/OpenResty</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>章, 亦春 (2012-07-09). 【开源访谈】OpenResty 作者章亦春访谈实录 [[Open Source Interview] Interview with OpenResty author Zhang Yichun]. OSChina.NET (Interview) (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on 2022-04-30. Retrieved 2022-02-06. <a href="【开源访谈】OpenResty 作者章亦春访谈实录" target="_blank">【开源访谈】OpenResty 作者章亦春访谈实录</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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