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Welcome to the Nginx English Wiki

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Written by Igor Sysoev in 2005, Nginx now hosts between 1% and 4% of all domains worldwide (sources: 1, 2). Although still in beta, Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.

This unofficial wiki houses information and tips regarding Nginx's installation, configuration, and add-ons. Feel free to contribute!

Please direct questions regarding this wiki to Cliff Wells <cliff AT develix DOT com>.

Learn About Nginx

Nginx Releases

• Latest stable version: Nginx 0.6.35 (Jan 26th, 2009)

• Latest development version: Nginx 0.7.40 (Mar 9, 2009)

• Latest legacy stable version: Nginx 0.5.37 (Jul 7th, 2008)

Nginx News

• New module: nginx_mp4_streaming_lite from Jiang Hong to allow to seek to a certain time within H.264/MP4 files when provided with a "start" parameter in the URL.

• Module news: mod_zip 1.1 from Evan Miller now supports pause/resume and download accelerators (6 Aug 2008)

• New module: XSLT Module included in nginx 0.7.8 converts XML documents on the fly using XSLT. (4 Aug 2008)

• New module: Upload Module 2.0.4 from Valery Kholodkov stores files uploaded as multipart/form-data (20 Jul 2008)

• Among open-source web servers, only Apache hosts more domains than Nginx, according to the June 2008 Netcraft survey. Nginx now hosts over 2 million domains and is #4 overall. (3 Jun 2008)

• Older news...

External Resources

1. Official Nginx Home (Russian)

2. Downloads

3. Nginx for Windows (win32)(Under Cygwin)

4. Nginx native port to MS Windows (Out of date)

5. Ubuntu Easy installer script with PHP support and MySQL

6. Guide to Nginx Module Development

7. Nginx source code cross-reference

8. Short Nginx examples

9. Nginx mailing list archive

10. Geolocation database for Nginx in CIDR format (countries by IP)

11. Nginx vs Apache

Support Nginx!

It is now possible to make a donation and help support the software developers.

PayPal: paypal@nginx.net