nginx 1.5+ file upload -- best practices

Question

I'm looking to upload files through my nginx server. I'm currently running nginx-1.4.6 and am willing up move to the latest stable nginx-1.5* as necessary.

The community favorite is/was Valery Kholodkov's nginx-upload-module, found here. Regrettably Valery is no longer maintaining this module, details here. As of nginx-1.3.9 the module works partially or not at all.

I've compiled the nginx-upload-module into nginx-1.4.6 and am getting a bug (Client cxn closed) that seems to be fixed in the nginx-1.5.3 changeset. However I've applied the patch and had no luck.

Anatoly's slightly dated post, here, offers multiple solutions, includes four solutions

• nginx-upload-module
• nginx-big-upload
• lua-resty-upload
• clientbodyinfileonly

As I dive into the second and fourth solutions (I prefer not to make lua a dependency, but I might) I figured that it's appropriate to ask this community:

What are the current best practices for file uploading with nginx-1.5+?

Let me add that I'm uploading files from a python POST command and trying to test with curl. PHP is not on my tech stack.

Answer 1

Maybe you can use perl if you don't like php or lua.

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_perl_module.html#methods

$r->has_request_body(handler)

But out of the box nginx isn't the tool to save a received post request and store it.

Maybe uWSGI ( https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ) is a better way to go with http-socket https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/HTTP.html and a python app.