ERROR: *2 lua entry thread aborted: runtime error: access_by_lua

[przbadu]

First curl gives this error:

2016/01/07 11:59:02 [error] 17199#0: *1 lua entry thread aborted: runtime error: ...bapps/openresty_nginx_app/openresty/lualib/nginx-jwt.lua:7: Environment variable JWT_SECRET not set
stack traceback:
coroutine 0:
    [C]: in function 'require'
    access_by_lua(nginx.conf:59):2: in function <access_by_lua(nginx.conf:59):1>, client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET /secure HTTP/1.0", host: "my.host.com"

Second curl gives this error:

2016/01/07 10:13:11 [error] 27439#0: *2 lua entry thread aborted: runtime error: access_by_lua(nginx.conf:58):2: loop or previous error loading module 'nginx-jwt'
stack traceback:
coroutine 0:
    [C]: in function 'require'
    access_by_lua(nginx.conf:58):2: in function <access_by_lua(nginx.conf:58):1>, client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET /secure HTTP/1.0", host: "my.host.com"

NOTE: I have already setup JWT_SECRET in my .zshrc file, and it looks like lua is not taking that.

Installed openresty with:

$ curl -R -O https://openresty.org/download/ngx_openresty-1.9.7.1.tar.gz
$ tar xvf ngx_openresty-1.9.7.1.tar.gz
$ cd ngx_openresty-1.9.7.1/
" $ ./configure " not working for WebFaction, so --prefix installation directory to ~/bin
./configure \
  --prefix=/home/<myuser>/webapps/openresty_nginx_app/openresty \
  --with-luajit \
  --with-ipv6 \
  --with-http_postgres_module \
  --with-http_gunzip_module \
  --with-http_secure_link_module \
  --with-http_gzip_static_module \
  --without-http_redis_module \
  --without-http_redis2_module \
  --without-http_xss_module \
  --without-http_memc_module \
  --without-http_rds_json_module \
  --without-http_rds_csv_module \
  --without-lua_resty_memcached \
  --without-lua_resty_mysql \
  --without-http_ssi_module \
  --without-http_autoindex_module \
  --without-http_fastcgi_module \
  --without-http_uwsgi_module \
  --without-http_scgi_module \
  --without-http_memcached_module \
  --without-http_empty_gif_module
$ make
$ make install

1. Downloaded nginx-jwt from https://github.com/auth0/nginx-jwt/releases

2. moved it under the nginx directory that is installed by openresty:

   $ cd /home//webapps/openresty_nginx_app/openresty/nginx

Directory Structure:

|-- openresty/
|---- bin/
|---- luajit/
|---- lualib/
|---- nginx/
|------- client_body_temp/
|------- conf/
|------- html/
|------- logs/
|------- lua/
|--------- basexx.lua
|--------- nginx-jwt.lua
|--------- resty/
|----------- evp.lua
|----------- hmac.lua
|----------- jwt.lua
|--------- version.txt
|------- proxy_temp/
|------- sbin

config/nginx.conf

http {

.....

#nginx-jwt
  lua_package_path '/home/<myuser>/webapps/openresty_nginx_app/openresty/lua/?.lua;;';

  server {
    listen       23439;
    server_name  localhost;

    #charset koi8-r;

    #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;

    location /check {
      default_type text/html;
      content_by_lua '
      ngx.say("<h1>Should work now with openresty</h1>")
      ';
    }

    # nginx-lua secure url
    location /secure {
      access_by_lua '
      local jwt = require("nginx-jwt")
      jwt.auth()
      ';

      proxy_pass http://my.host.com/secure;
    }

    .........

  }
}

NOTE: http://my.host.com/check is working fine. problem is with http://my.host.com/secure

[przbadu]

Having same problem in my centos 7 server : ISSUE-51

So, I have downloaded, extracted and scp all contents into the server

[przbadu]

Having a closer look at error, I found that, it was a issue with

local secret = os.getenv("JWT_SECRET")

i.e JWT_SECRET set in my .zshrc are not picking up by lua.

I manually replace this script to debug:

-- local secret = os.getenv("JWT_SECRET")
local secret = "some secret"

And the app is working. Still I have to figure out, how to set Env variables for lua?