Ran,

You would probably want to use an Application Server behind the Web
Server (nginx). Then you would use the nginx to proxy the request to
the application server, where you can write code in the language that
the application server supports (for example, I use Lucee as an
application server, but many people use PHP or JSP or a bunch of other
technologies).

In the application server you can do whatever you want with the request,
e.g. read request parameters and build an XML document on the fly, and
send it back to nginx which will send it back to the client.

nginx is a web server, similar in function to apache httpd or IIS, but
much better in my opinion (and in the opinion of most users on this
list, I would think), but if you want to serve dynamic content then you
should have an application server behind it.

HTH,

Igal Sapir
Lucee Core Developer
Lucee.org http://lucee.org/

On 3/10/2017 11:07 PM, Ran Shalit wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:19 AM, Jeff Dyke <jeff.dyke@gmail.com> wrote:
>> what do you want it to do? if you're talking nginx without any application
>> backend you could do a lot with some lua locations, or you're going to pass
>> that request to another process, or serve a static (xml) file from the file
>> system.
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Thank you very much.
> I have requirement that application should "support webserver which
> includes xml and save xml file to filesystem"
> Does it mean that it actually should " serve a static (xml) file from
> the file" (the second option you mentioned).
> If yes - can you give some hints about it or where to read further about it ?
>
> Does it mean it just save and retrieve file parsing it to other
> commands ? (I have read somewhere that uploading a file parse the
> file, so I am a bit confused here)
>
> I am new with nginx, still learning it.
>
> Many thanks,
> Ran
>
> Nginx does support XML just fine, its all a matter of what you want
>> your application to do.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Ran Shalit <ranshalit@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am new with web servers and nginx.
>>> I would like to ask if nginx support xml , and what does it mean to
>>> upload xml to web server ?
>>> Does it just keep the xml as file in some directory , or does it do
>>> parse the xml file and do some actions ?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Ran
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