How to run bash script from nginx?

Question

linux

The task is as follows - for some request like example.org/do_the_job, you need to run a bash script on the frontend server.
All solutions found in Google come down to two methods:
1. install Lua and LuajIT on the server and use HttpLuaModule to run O_o
2. install another http server that can execute a CGI script that can run a bash command and pass the request to it o_O

On the frontend now only nginx is installed. The options to install apache/php/… are not very good.

upd. The solution was found - nginx was compiled with HttpPerlModule.
Added one more location according to the documentation - nginx.org/ru/docs/http/ngx_http_perl_module.html - and it all worked.

Answer 1

Well, I see two sane options:
First:
Jinx has a perl module, it is almost default. Directly in the config, you can make an exec of the desired script. --with-http_perl_module will help you.
The second option is generally delicious. Make our bashscript a daemon. And kick it with the CGI protocol.
The question is different - won't this be all a security hole?

Answer 2

for example, make it a wrapper from cgi (on the same sh)

Answer 3

In general, nginx, architecturally and for security reasons, does not support working with cgi. Therefore it is desirable to use FastCGI or http.

Answer 4

As mentioned above, do FastCGI.
If you use perl, please note that this script should not have blocking operations.

Answer 5

For these and many other purposes, uWSGI is ideal .