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json: NGINX JSON module

Debian/Ubuntu installation

These docs apply to the APT package nginx-module-json provided by the GetPageSpeed Extras repository.

  1. Configure the APT repository as described in APT repository setup.
  2. Install the module:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx-module-json
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Module:

Directives:

Syntax:  json_load $json string;
Default: ——
Context: http, server, location

Loads string (may contains variables) into (json) variable $json.

Syntax:  json_dump $string $json [name ...];
Default: ——
Context: http, server, location

Dumps (json) variable $json into (string) variable $string (may point path by names).