Balancer/redis issues about lua-resty-core

[craigp]

Ok, I seem to have been able to fix my issue by changing:

lua_package_path "/opt/openresty/lualib/resty/?.lua";

.. which is the default, to:

lua_package_path "/opt/openresty/lualib/?.lua;;";

(Might be worth documenting that somewhere, unless I missed it, caused me a ton of frustration)

[agentzh]

@craigp You don't need to use lua_package_path since those libraries are always visible in the default search paths used by OpenResty. "/opt/openresty/lualib/resty/?.lua" is the wrong search path. Always use the one in the documentation. Also the documentation already says that you don't need that if you are using the OpenResty bundle. The semantics of Lua search paths is already documented in the Lua 5.1 reference manual:

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-package.loaders

[craigp]

Cool thanks. When I installed OpenResty it had lua_package_path "/opt/openresty/lualib/resty/?.lua"; in there already, will remove it in future.

[agentzh]

@craigp Are you sure you are using the official OpenResty distribution? See

http://openresty.org/en/download.html

I'm pretty sure the official distribution's nginx.conf does not have that wrong directive.

[agentzh]

@craigp Whatever 3rd-party OpenResy distribution you are currently using, I suggest you contact the maintainer of that distribution to fix the problem in their nginx.conf.

[craigp]

yup, downloaded the official. Anyway, no big deal. If I have time tomorrow I'll do an install from scratch to confirm that it does the same.

[agentzh]

@craigp The official OpenResty distribution ships the official nginx distribution's nginx.conf. So there's no way that you see any ngx_lua specific configurations like lua_package_path. No way :)

[craigp]

Yeah, no worries man, I was scrambling to get things to work and taking bad advice from IRC, so I likely put that in there and didn't remember ;)