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 also use the nginx mirror module and poxy_pass it to a web script that runs whatever, in my case I just added this to my main site location {...

mirror /mirror;
mirror_request_body off;

and then a new location called mirror that I had run a php script that executed whatever...

location = /mirror {
    internal;
    proxy_pass http://localhost/run_script.php;
    proxy_pass_request_body off;
    proxy_set_header Content-Length "";
    proxy_set_header X-Original-URI $request_uri;
}

https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_mirror_module.html