nginx "engine x" is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.

  nginx has been running for more than two years on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Rambler. In March 2007 about 20% of all Russian virtual hosts were served or proxied by nginx. According to Google Online Security Blog nginx serves or proxies about 4% of all Internet virtual hosts, although Netcraft shows much less percent.

   The last development version is nginx-0.8.36, Win32 nginx-0.8.36.zip the change log
   The last stable version is nginx-0.7.65, Win32 nginx-0.7.65.zip the change log
   The last legacy stable version is nginx-0.6.39, the change log
   Older nginx versions

     The sources are licensed under a BSD-like license. (view)

   Primary nginx project website
   The English Wiki
   The Russian documenatation
   One of English mailling list archives

   nginx-fcgi script
   nginx-RRD stats
   PLD Linux nginx.spec

Basic HTTP features:

• Handling of static files, index files, and autoindexing; open file descriptor cache;
• Accelerated reverse proxying without caching, simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
• Accelerated support without caching of remote FastCGI servers, simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
• Modular architecture. Filters include gzipping, byte ranges, chunked responses, and SSI. Multiple SSI inclusions within a single page can be processed in parallel if they are handled by FastCGI or proxied servers.
• SSL and TLS SNI support.

Mail proxy server features:

• User redirection to IMAP/POP3 backend using an external HTTP authentication server;
• User authentication using an external HTTP authentication server and connection redirection to internal SMTP backend;
• Authentication methods:
  • POP3: USER/PASS, APOP, AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5;
  • IMAP: LOGIN, AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5;
  • SMTP: AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5;
  • SSL support;
  • STARTTLS and STLS support.

Tested OS and platforms:

• FreeBSD 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x i386; FreeBSD 5.x, 6.x amd64;
• Linux 2.2, 2.4, 2.6 i386; Linux 2.6 amd64;
• Solaris 9 i386, sun4u; Solaris 10 i386;
• MacOS X (10.4) ppc;

Architecture and scalability:

• one master process and several workers processes. The workers run as unprivileged user;
• kqueue (FreeBSD 4.1+), epoll (Linux 2.6+), rt signals (Linux 2.2.19+), /dev/poll (Solaris 7 11/99+), event ports (Solaris 10), select, and poll support;
• various kqueue features support including, EV_CLEAR, EV_DISABLE (to disable event temporalily), NOTE_LOWAT, EV_EOF, number of available data, error codes;
• sendfile (FreeBSD 3.1+), sendfile (Linux 2.2+), sendfile64 (Linux 2.4.21+), and sendfilev (Solaris 8 7/01+) support;
• accept-filter (FreeBSD 4.1+) and TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT (Linux 2.4+) support;
• 10,000 inactive HTTP keep-alive connections take about 2.5M memory;
• data copy operations are kept to a minimum.

Other HTTP features:

• name- and IP-based virtual servers;
• keep-alive and pipelined connections support;
• flexible configuration;
• reconfiguration and online upgrade without interruption of the client processing;
• access log formats, bufferred writing, and quick log rotation;
• 4xx-5xx error codes redirection;
• rewrite module;
• access control based on client IP address and HTTP Basic authentication;
• PUT, DELETE, MKCOL, COPY and MOVE methods;
• FLV streaming;
• speed limitation;
• limitation of simultaneous connections from one address.

Experimental features:

• embedded perl.

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