[Nix-dev] How to enable Nginx lua module

[Eike]

Hi Erik,

glad you figured it out. Yes, it must be supplied to the
`packageOverrides` function. This way you can define new packages or
override existing ones (by using the same name). Sorry for the delay and
my incomplete reply.

Kind regards
Eike

4levels <4levels at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi All, I finally got it to work as follows:
>
> nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs:
> {
>   nginx = pkgs.nginx.override {
>     modules = [
>       pkgs.nginxModules.lua
>       pkgs.nginxModules.dav
>       pkgs.nginxModules.moreheaders
>     ];
>   };
> };
>
> Glad I got it working now!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Erik
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:56 PM 4levels <4levels at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Eike,
>>
>> could you please tell me where you found that nginx config part in your
>> config?
>> I'm trying my very best but I'm failing miserably to override the nginx
>> modules in my NixOps statements :-(
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Erik
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:58 AM 4levels <4levels at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Eike,
>>>
>>> I'm actually getting infinite recursion errors when I try to add the
>>> following to my sample servers.nix config:
>>>
>>> with import <nixpkgs/lib>;
>>> let
>>>   ...
>>> in
>>> {
>>>   vm01 =
>>>     { config, pkgs, nodes, nginx, nginxModules, ... }:
>>>     nginx.override {
>>>       modules = [
>>>         nginxModules.lua
>>>       ];
>>>     }
>>>     {
>>>       deployment.targetHost = "192.168.1.50";
>>>       ...
>>>     };
>>>     ...
>>>   };
>>> }
>>>
>>> Fails with error
>>>
>>> ..
>>> while evaluating the module argument `nginx' in ":anon-1:anon-1":
>>> infinite recursion encountered, at
>>> /nix/store/yqvarbfxf3594p7p954b4qjdiwmyagm4-nixos-16.09.tar.gz/lib/modules.nix:150:28
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:46 AM 4levels <4levels at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Eike,
>>>>
>>>> I found similar info in the release notes for 16.03.
>>>> I'm struggling to get this into my NixOps statements though, but I'm
>>>> sure I'll figure it out ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your swift reply!
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> Erik
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:33 AM Eike <eike at eknet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hallo Erik,
>>>>>
>>>>> I found this in my config files:
>>>>>
>>>>>     { nginx, nginxModules }:
>>>>>
>>>>>     nginx.override {
>>>>>       modules =  [
>>>>>         nginxModules.rtmp
>>>>>         nginxModules.dav
>>>>>         nginxModules.moreheaders
>>>>>     #    nginxModules.lua
>>>>>       ];
>>>>>     }
>>>>>
>>>>> But I don't remember why I commented out the lua module. Maybe it didn't
>>>>> work or I don't need it…. And this is nixos-16.09, so maybe things
>>>>> changed here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>> Eike
>>>>>
>>>>> 4levels <4levels at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> > Hi Nix Devs,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I can see that Nginx can be configured to use the lua module, but I
>>>>> can't
>>>>> > seem to find how to enable this module?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I'm probably overlooking something obvious here, but I checked all
>>>>> files in
>>>>> > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/16.09/pkgs/servers/http/nginx
>>>>> and I
>>>>> > just don't see how I can enable this.
>>>>> > https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html#nginx also doesn't enlighten me
>>>>> either
>>>>> > :-(
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Kind regards,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Erik
>>>>> > _______________________________________________
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>>>>>
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