nginx - How to run a shell script on every request?

Question

I want to run a shell script every time my nginx server receives any HTTP request. Any simple ways to do this?

Answer 1

You can execute a shell script via Lua code from the nginx.conf file to achieve this. You need to have the HttpLuaModule to be able to do this.

Here's an example to do this.

location /my-website {
  content_by_lua_block {
    os.execute("/bin/myShellScript.sh")
  } 
}