Taobao's branch of Nginx

http://tengine.taobao.org/

by ujeezy • 14 years ago

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tengine.taobao.org

mercurial5• 14 years ago

Anyone outside of Taobao using this in production? I'd be really interested in a reliable version of nginx supporting dynamic loading of modules, recompiling nginx everytime you need a custom module quickly loses its charm.

pyre2• 14 years ago

  > recompiling nginx everytime you need a custom
  > module quickly loses its charm

How often are you adding/removing modules?

handelaar• 14 years ago

Once, ever, is more than anybody wants.

[I'm a huge nginx fan myself but recall that this is coming to the main project soonish.]

pestaa• 14 years ago

Perhaps dynamic loading is useful to speed up tinkering with development and staging, but for production I'll take a system with the least moving parts any day.

tszming3• 14 years ago

Compiling nginx is generally very fast (especially if you compare to other server).

Also, you can upgrade nginx binary without any downtime, see: http://wiki.nginx.org/CommandLine

mercurial5• 14 years ago

If you compare to another sever like Apache which supports dynamic modules, adding a single line in a configuration file (or at worst dropping a .so in a folder, followed by adding a line in a configuration file) is much less work than retrieving gcc and friends and rebuilding a .deb.

yaoweibin4• 14 years ago

Many large Chinese video sites have used Tengine: tudou.com, 56.com, pptv.com etc.

ra• 14 years ago

Yes, we use it in production. However our requirements are for the logging enhancements rather than the dynamic modules.

In our experience it's every bit as reliable as mainline nginx.

Vidart• 14 years ago

There are a lot of problems in Tengine implementation: http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2012-September/0354... http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2012-September/0354...

mnbbrown• 14 years ago

There was thread on tengine when it was first made open source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3645055

ck24• 14 years ago

Hmm nginx cannot natively do piped logging?

I like the idea of combined javascript and stylesheets but I'd rather force the combining from the server-side, not a special client-side request. ie.

   location /style.css {
      root /css;
      combine style1.css+style2.css+style3.css;
   }

Ohhh... agentzh wrote the fork? The one who made many popular modules?

tszming3• 14 years ago

>> nginx cannot natively do piped logging?

"No, nginx will not support logging to a pipe since this is simlpy waste of CPU."

- Igor Sysoev (http://markmail.org/message/4bsjfjpg2kgsjhph)

ck24• 14 years ago

Interesting, so to rotate nginx logs do you have to restart nginx?

I always though piped logging was required to rotate logs without restart.

I love the graceful restart and even the replace the executable on the fly nginx has.

yaoweibin4• 14 years ago

No really, agentzh and chaoslawful developed the nginx_lua module. It's included in Tengine.

Tengine is maintained by many other developers (in Chinese): https://github.com/taobao/tengine/wiki/%E7%A4%BE%E5%8C%BA%E5...

ck24• 14 years ago

Looks like concat is available as it's own module:

https://github.com/taobao/nginx-http-concat

and another attempt by someone else here:

https://github.com/lindsayevans/nginx-static-concat

But both of them rely on or accept client-side concat, I'd rather just do it server-side only for security/control.

zhuzhaoyuan• 14 years ago

Tengine is a result of teamwork. And agentzh is one of the core developers of Tengine.

tzury• 14 years ago

I think the openresty http://openresty.org/ is the one originated this as the guys who maintain openresty are ex/current Taobao's employees.

yaoweibin4• 14 years ago

Tengine is developed on github. Anyone who is interested in can follow it. URL: https://github.com/taobao/tengine

happywolf• 14 years ago

Just curious if Taobao is using this stock branch in production servers. Any proprietary modules loaded?

gadders• 14 years ago

Slightly off-topic, but are there any other major open-source projects from China? I was wondering whether a) there aren't many (yet) or b) they're mostly publicised in Chinese so off the radar for English speakers.

yaoweibin4• 14 years ago

Have you heard of the LVS? (http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/). We are using it for load balance before Tengine. It's steady and high performance, even better than the commercial load balancer.

Taobao's branch of Nginx

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