I have been working with Ansible for some time at work now. This new project uses quite a bit of Ansible so I have been learning a lot. I had touched Ansible before but that was just to put together something to help me with copying stuff over and over to a bunch of servers. The requirement of current project is to programmatically run an Ansible playbook on a server newly provisioned. Going in without knowing much about Ansible, one could easily believe that it’s as easy as passing the new host. Well that’s not how things turned out for me.

I had used X-Accel-Redirect with Python/Flask and nginx at work. I wanted to do the same with lua for a hobby project. So the title is what I Googled for when I wanted to serve files with nginx-lua. I soon realized I was looking for the wrong thing. My search term was wrong. Hence the title is misleading too :D. You can’t actually use X-Accel-Redirect meaningfully with nginx-lua. X-Accel-Redirect is apparently only processed by modules like ngx_proxy, ngx_fastcgi etc.

Another superfluous achievement in the chase of new and shiny. Oh who am I kidding?. Static sites have been here forever. Hugo has been here for so long. Heck this blog post itself has been on my machine since last year. It’s just that I never put it online. Or write this text until now (2016-06-07) #YOLO. Such is adult life. Well It’s nothing wrong about adult life either. It’s just me being lazy. Going through phases etc. I have been blogging for quite some time. And then I have been not blogging for sometime as well. At least I micro blog. Or in other words, tweet.