A pure stream http push technology for your Nginx setup.
Comet made easy and really scalable.
Supports EventSource, WebSocket, Long Polling, and Forever Iframe. See some examples bellow.
This module is not distributed with the Nginx source. See the installation instructions.
Available on github at nginx_push_stream_module
Always take a look at CHANGELOG.textile to see what’s new.
After you try this module and like it, feel free to give something back, and help in the maintenance of the project ;)
This module is considered production ready.
# add the push_stream_shared_memory_size to your http context
http {
push_stream_shared_memory_size 32M;
# define publisher and subscriber endpoints in your server context
server {
location /channels-stats {
# activate channels statistics mode for this location
push_stream_channels_statistics;
# query string based channel id
push_stream_channels_path $arg_id;
}
location /pub {
# activate publisher (admin) mode for this location
push_stream_publisher admin;
# query string based channel id
push_stream_channels_path $arg_id;
}
location ~ /sub/(.*) {
# activate subscriber (streaming) mode for this location
push_stream_subscriber;
# positional channel path
push_stream_channels_path $1;
}
}
}
You can feel the flavor right now at the command line. Try using more than
one terminal and start playing http pubsub:
# Subs
curl -s -v --no-buffer 'http://localhost/sub/my_channel_1'
curl -s -v --no-buffer 'http://localhost/sub/your_channel_1'
curl -s -v --no-buffer 'http://localhost/sub/your_channel_2'
# Pubs
curl -s -v -X POST 'http://localhost/pub?id=my_channel_1' -d 'Hello World!'
curl -s -v -X POST 'http://localhost/pub?id=your_channel_1' -d 'Hi everybody!'
curl -s -v -X POST 'http://localhost/pub?id=your_channel_2' -d 'Goodbye!'
# Channels Stats for publisher (json format)
curl -s -v 'http://localhost/pub?id=my_channel_1'
# All Channels Stats summarized (json format)
curl -s -v 'http://localhost/channels-stats'
# All Channels Stats detailed (json format)
curl -s -v 'http://localhost/channels-stats?id=ALL'
# Prefixed Channels Stats detailed (json format)
curl -s -v 'http://localhost/channels-stats?id=your_channel_*'
# Channels Stats (json format)
curl -s -v 'http://localhost/channels-stats?id=my_channel_1'
# Delete Channels
curl -s -v -X DELETE 'http://localhost/pub?id=my_channel_1'
- Curl examples
- Forever (hidden) iFrame
- Event Source
- WebSocket
- Long Polling
- JSONP
- M-JPEG
- Other examples
Doubts?! Check the FAQ.
To report a bug, please provide the following information when applicable
- Which push stream module version is been used (commit sha1)?
- Which nginx version is been used?
- Nginx configuration in use
- “nginx -V” command outuput
- Core dump indicating a failure on the module code. Check here how to produce one.
- Step by step description to reproduce the error.
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There is a javascript client implementation here, which is framework independent. Try and help improve it. ;)
(1) Defining locations, (2) Main configuration, (3) Subscribers configuration, (4) Publishers configuration, (5) Channels Statistics configuration, (6) WebSocket configuration
# clone the project
git clone https://github.com/wandenberg/nginx-push-stream-module.git
NGINX_PUSH_STREAM_MODULE_PATH=$PWD/nginx-push-stream-module
# get desired nginx version (works with 1.2.0+)
wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.2.0.tar.gz
# unpack, configure and build
tar xzvf nginx-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd nginx-1.2.0
./configure --add-module=../nginx-push-stream-module
make
# install and finish
sudo make install
# check
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/1.2.0
# test configuration
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -c $NGINX_PUSH_STREAM_MODULE_PATH/misc/nginx.conf -t
the configuration file $NGINX_PUSH_STREAM_MODULE_PATH/misc/nginx.conf syntax is ok
configuration file $NGINX_PUSH_STREAM_MODULE_PATH/misc/nginx.conf test is successful
# run
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -c $NGINX_PUSH_STREAM_MODULE_PATH/misc/nginx.conf
Just as information is listed below the minimum amount of memory used for each object:
- message on shared = 200 bytes
- channel on shared = 270 bytes
- subscriber
- on shared = 160 bytes
- on system = 6550 bytes
The server tests for this module are written in Ruby, and are acceptance tests, click here for more details.
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