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Welcome to the Nginx English Wiki
Nginx ("engine x") is a high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Nginx was written by Igor Sysoev for rambler.ru, Russia's second-most visited website, where it has been running in production for over two and a half years. Igor has released the source code under a BSD-like license. Although still in beta, Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.
Because most of Nginx's documentation is in Russian, this wiki exists to help the English-speaking world install, configure, and swap tips about Nginx. Much of the documentation was derived from the work of Aleksandar Lazic <al-nginx AT none DOT at>.
Please direct questions regarding the wiki itself to Cliff Wells <cliff AT develix DOT com>.
Learn About Nginx
Nginx Releases
Latest stable version:
Nginx 0.6.31 (12 May 2008) Latest development version: Nginx 0.7.0 (19 May 2008)
Latest legacy stable version:
Nginx 0.5.36 (04 May 2008)
Note: On 04 May 2008 Igor declared version 0.6.30 as stable and mentioned that the 0.6.x development branch will soon be spun off to form the beginning of 0.7.x.
Nginx News
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New module: SCGI Module from Manlio Perillo adds support for the Simple Common Gateway Interface. (29 Apr 2008)
New module: Google Perftools Module included in 0.6.29 supports a popular profiling tool. (18 Mar 2008)
Nginx breaks 1 million domains and is #6 (excluding "Unknown" and "Other") on April 2008 Netcraft survey used by 1,018,503 domains worldwide! (8x since last year) (13 Mar 2008)
Docs for the new Access Key Module have been translated to English. (29 Dec 2007)
Save CPU by pre-compressing content with the new Gzip Pre-Compression Module, introduced in Nginx 0.6.24. (29 Dec 2007)
mod_wsgi 0.0.4 is "a fully conforming implementation of the WSGI specification", suitable for serving many Python applications (1 Dec 2007)
External Resources
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