[Patch] Allow listening on Unix domain sockets

[Nick Pearson]

Is this not supported already?  I don't know for sure that it is, but
I was recently reading on the github blog about setting up nginx with
unicorn, and using domain sockets is how they do it:

http://github.com/blog/517-unicorn

Maybe they modified nginx themselves, but from the article it doesn't
sound like it.

Anyway, if it's not included in nginx already, then +1 from me too.

Nick

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Cliff Wells <cliff at develix.com> wrote:
> +1 on this (assuming the patch is acceptable).
>
> Regards,
> Cliff
>
> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:12 +0200, Hongli Lai wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> The attached patch allows Nginx to listen on Unix domain sockets, like
>> this:
>>
>>   server {
>>      listen unix:/tmp/nginx.sock;
>>      server_name foobar.com;
>>      root /webapps/foobar;
>>   }
>>
>> We use it to improve proxying performance; Unix domain sockets are
>> faster than TCP sockets.
>>
>> I'd like to see this patch getting merged upstream. Could a maintainer
>> please review this patch?
>>
>> With kind regards,
>> Hongli Lai
>>
>> Attachments:
>> http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/4174/nginx-unix-sockets.diff
>>
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