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Asked: 2012-07-12 07:52:14 +0800 CST

Nginx (openresty) generating random numbers

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I have openresty set up on a server (nginx bundle which includes the lua module) and I'm trying to create a script which has specific odds of setting a cookie on a user's browser. My code looks like this:

    location =/index.php {
        set $random_num 0;

        rewrite_by_lua '

                marth.randomseed(1);
                nvx.var.random_num = math.random(0,3);

        ';

        add_header Set-Cookie "random_num=$random_num; path=/; domain=...com;";
    }

I know my random seed function isn't actually very random, but I figured I'd deal with that later. At the moment I'm just trying to get nginx to set a random number, but doing so yields this error:

2012/07/11 11:27:20 [error] 5492#0: *44 lua handler aborted: runtime error: [string "rewrite_by_lua"]:3: attempt to ind
ex global 'marth' (a nil value)
stack traceback:

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, and if there's any other way to get a random number in nginx?

nginx lua random-number-generator

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Based on your error log entry, it appears you have a simple typo.

                marth.randomseed(1);

    This should read:

                math.randomseed(1);
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