NileshGR

Tag: lua

  • Group based HTTP basic authentication using Nginx and MySQL with help of Lua

    Group based HTTP basic authentication using Nginx and MySQL with help of Lua

    Recently I moved from Apache to Nginx on one of my servers due to increase in traffic. But I was using HTTP Basic authentication with group based authorization on Apache in this manner: However, there’s no AuthGroupFile  in nginx. But LUA, a programming language is supported in nginx. So here’s how I used LUA and…

  • CloudFlare Dynamic DNS using OpenWRT

    I use dynamic DNS for my home internet connection so that I can access the machines from anywhere on the internet. And I use OpenWRT on my router. Earlier I was using Namecheap for managing DNS but I switched to CloudFlare for performance and security reasons of the website. Unfortunately CloudFlare doesn’t support updating IP…