Test::Nginx(3pm)

NAME
Test::Nginx - Data-driven test scaffold for Nginx C module and Nginx/OpenResty-based libraries and applications

DESCRIPTION
This distribution provides two testing modules for Nginx C module development:

•   Test::Nginx::Socket (This is highly recommended.)

    This library also has the following subclasses:

    •   Test::Nginx::Socket::Lua

    •   Test::Nginx::Socket::Lua::Stream

    •   Test::Nginx::Socket::Lua::Dgram

•   Test::Nginx::LWP (This is obsolete.)

All of them are based on Test::Base.

Usually, Test::Nginx::Socket is preferred because it works on a much lower level and not that fault tolerant like Test::Nginx::LWP.

Also, a lot of connection hang issues (like wrong "r->main->count" value in nginx 0.8.x) can only be captured by Test::Nginx::Socket because Perl's LWP::UserAgent client will close the connection itself which will conceal such issues from the testers.

Test::Nginx automatically starts an nginx instance (from the "PATH" env) rooted at t/servroot/ and the default config template makes this nginx instance listen on the port 1984 by default. One can specify a different port number by setting his port number to the "TEST_NGINX_PORT" environment, as in

    export TEST_NGINX_PORT=1989

User Guide
You can find a comprehensive user guide on this test framework in my upcoming book "Programming OpenResty":

<https://openresty.gitbooks.io/programming-openresty/content/testing/index.html>

Nginx C modules that use Test::Nginx to drive their test suites

ngx_echo
    <https://github.com/openresty/echo-nginx-module>

ngx_headers_more
    <https://github.com/openresty/headers-more-nginx-module>

ngx_chunkin
    <http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpChunkinModule>

ngx_memc
    <http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpMemcModule>

ngx_drizzle
    <https://github.com/openresty/drizzle-nginx-module>

ngx_rds_json
    <https://github.com/openresty/rds-json-nginx-module>

ngx_rds_csv
    <https://github.com/openresty/rds-csv-nginx-module>

ngx_xss
    <https://github.com/openresty/xss-nginx-module>

ngx_srcache
    <https://github.com/openresty/srcache-nginx-module>

ngx_lua
    <https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module>

ngx_set_misc
    <https://github.com/openresty/set-misc-nginx-module>

ngx_array_var
    <https://github.com/openresty/array-var-nginx-module>

ngx_form_input
    <https://github.com/calio/form-input-nginx-module>

ngx_iconv
    <https://github.com/calio/iconv-nginx-module>

ngx_set_cconv
    <https://github.com/liseen/set-cconv-nginx-module>

ngx_postgres
    <https://github.com/FRiCKLE/ngx_postgres>

ngx_coolkit
    <https://github.com/FRiCKLE/ngx_coolkit>

Naxsi
    <https://github.com/nbs-system/naxsi>

ngx_shibboleth
    <https://github.com/nginx-shib/nginx-http-shibboleth>

INSTALLATION
If you have `cpan` installed, you can simply run the command to install this module:

    sudo cpan Test::Nginx

If you want to install from the source code directory directly, you can run

    sudo cpan .

If you prefer cpanm to cpan (like I do!), you can replace "cpan" in the commands above with "cpanm".

Otherwise you can install this module in the good old way below:

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    sudo make install

SOURCE REPOSITORY
This module has a Git repository on Github, which has access for all.

<https://github.com/openresty/test-nginx>

If you want a commit bit, feel free to drop me a line.

DEBIAN PACKAGES
António P. P. Almeida is maintaining a Debian package for this module in his Debian repository: <http://debian.perusio.net>

Community

  English Mailing List
The "openresty-en" mailing list is for English speakers: <https://groups.google.com/group/openresty-en>

  Chinese Mailing List
The "openresty" mailing list is for Chinese speakers: <https://groups.google.com/group/openresty>

AUTHORS
Yichun Zhang (agentzh) "<agentzh@gmail.com>", OpenResty Inc.

Antoine BONAVITA "<antoine.bonavita@gmail.com>"

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2009-2025, Yichun Zhang (agentzh) "<agentzh@gmail.com>", OpenResty Inc.

Copyright (c) 2011-2012, Antoine Bonavita "<antoine.bonavita@gmail.com>".

This module is licensed under the terms of the BSD license.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

•   Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

•   Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

•   Neither the name of the authors nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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SEE ALSO
Test::Nginx::LWP, Test::Nginx::Socket, Test::Base.