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+lua-fastcgi
+===========
+
+lua-fastcgi is a sandboxed Lua backend for FastCGI. That is, you can write
+Lua scripts that serve up web pages. Options exist in lua-fastcgi.lua
+to configure a fixed amount of memory, cpu usage, and output bytes
+for each request. While sandboxed, lua-fastcgi supports a limit set
+of functions. If sandboxing is disabled, lua-fastcgi loads the standard
+libraries and users may load modules as needed.
+
+
+compiling
+---------
+
+lua-fastcgi requires libfcgi and liblua to successfully compile.  lua-fastcgi
+has been tested under Linux, specifically Ubuntu 10.10. Other versions of
+Ubuntu will likely work without any changes. Other flavors of Linux should
+work with little to no effort. Other Unix-like operating systems are untested
+and unsupported, for now.
+
+
+running
+-------
+
+lua-fastcgi reads lua-fastcgi.lua in the current working directory. If it
+fails to read this file, it will assume certain defaults and continue anyway.
+Configuration defaults are documented in the included lua-fastcgi.lua file.
+
+
+lua-fastcgi has been tested with nginx, but will likely work with other
+FastCGI compatible web servers with little effort. lua-fastcgi relies only
+on SCRIPT_NAME and SCRIPT_FILENAME FastCGI variables passed to it. Lua scripts
+can be configured inside of an nginx server directive as follows:
+
+    location ~* \.lua$ {
+        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
+        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9222;
+    }