Hi!
Ping! :-)
Ludo’.
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> David Thompson <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> Looking for some feedback on my first stab at making the nginx service
>> extensible. With this extension mechanism, future web applications
>> (such as GNU MediaGoblin) that use nginx as a front-end web server will
>> be able to extend nginx with the server configuration that they need in
>> order to work.
>
> Excellent!
>
>> Here's a useless service that adds nginx configuration to serve the
>> contents of /tmp:
>>
>> (define server
>> (plain-file "foo.conf"
>> "
>> server {
>> listen 80;
>> root /tmp;
>> index index.html;
>> server_name dthompson.us;
>> }
>> "))
>
> Do you think it would make sense to provide Scheme bindings for those
> ‘server’ configuration snippets, or would we lose too much
> expressiveness?
>
>> From 108db2d183526c42b53060e55f7fb292b53663cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: David Thompson <dthomps...@worcester.edu>
>> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:49:08 -0500
>> Subject: [PATCH] services: nginx: Allow for server extensions.
>>
>> * gnu/services/web.scm (<nginx-configuration>)[servers]: New field.
>> (nginx-configuration-servers): New accessor.
>> (default-nginx-config): Delete.
>> (nginx-configuration-file*): New procedure.
>> (nginx-activation): Perform the syntax check on the full computed
>> configuration file.
>> (nginx-dmd-service): Use the full computed configuration file when
>> starting the service.
>> (extend-nginx): New procedure.
>> (nginx-service-type): Specify extension procedures.
>> (nginx-service): Add #:servers argument.
>
> [...]
>
>> +(define (nginx-configuration-file* config)
>
> ‘nginx-configuration->file’ maybe?
>
> Otherwise LGTM!
>
> As an exercise, and while waiting for Chris to finish packaging
> MediaGoblin ;-), it might make sense to try to use nginx in
> ‘guix-publish-service’ or a variant thereof.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Ludo’.
