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Nginx Resources

A collection of resources covering Nginx, Nginx + Lua, OpenResty and Tengine.

This list is maintained by Frederic Cambus. For updates, follow me on X: @fcambus

Understanding Nginx

Understanding Nginx versioning

Interview with the creator of Nginx

Interview with Igor Sysoev, author of Apache's competitor NGINX

The case for Nginx in front of application servers

Nginx Optimization: understanding sendfile, tcp_nodelay and tcp_nopush

Architecture

The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 2): nginx

Nginx Guts - Shedding light on Nginx internals

Nginx discovery journey

Nginx Internals

Inside NGINX: How We Designed for Performance & Scale

Thread Pools in NGINX

Configuration

Beginner's Guide

Alphabetical index of variables

Useful Rewrites for Nginx

Nginx Configuration Primer

Nginx Primer 2: From Apache to Nginx

Understanding the Nginx Configuration Inheritance Model

Nginx HTTP server boilerplate configs

Nginx Boilerplate - Configuration template and a set of handy must-have snippets

How to Configure OCSP Stapling in Apache and Nginx

NGINX Config - Online nginx configuration generator

Nice nginx features for developers

Nice nginx features for operators

Avoiding the Top 10 NGINX Configuration Mistakes

Gixy - Nginx configuration static analyzer

Maintained forks: [gixy-ng](https://github.com/dvershinin/gixy), [gixy-next](https://github.com/MegaManSec/Gixy-Next)

Nginx common configuration - Universal config and snippets

Security

BunkerWeb - Next-generation, open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) based on Nginx

Tutorials

NGINX and NGINX Plus Admin Guide

Introduction to nginx.conf scripting

Optimizing Nginx for High Traffic Loads

NGINX as a WebSockets Proxy

HTTP Keepalive Connections and Web Performance

Serving precompressed content with Nginx and Zopfli

Nginx on FreeBSD

Performing A/B Testing with NGINX and NGINX Plus

Improving NGINX Performance with Kernel TLS and SSL_sendfile()

Module development

Official Development Guide

Guide to Nginx Module Development

Advanced Topics In Nginx Module Development

APIs

Telize - JSON IP and GeoIP REST API (IP Geolocation) built on Nginx and Lua

GIN - JSON-API framework

Kong - Management Layer for Microservices and APIs

Hacks

Nginx JSON hacks

Using Environment Variables In Nginx.conf

Log rotation directly within Nginx configuration file

Realtime pixel tracking with Nginx, syslog-ng, and Redis

Dynamic log formats in Nginx

Capture and delay unwanted requests

Nginx: a caching, thumbnailing, reverse proxying image server?

Tips

Things you didn't know Nginx could do

Finding the nginx gzip_comp_level sweet spot

nginx mirroring tips and tricks

Nginx + Lua

Nginx, Lua, and beyond

Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua

Adding OAuth Support to Nginx via Lua

Scripting libdrizzle with Lua inside Nginx

Writing an Nginx authentication module in Lua

Scaling TextRazor in the Cloud with Nginx and Lua

LSSO - Lua + Nginx SSO System with an OAuth Backend

Measuring Nginx Cache Performance using Lua and Redis

nginx-lua - Nginx 1.19+ with LUA support based on Alpine Linux, Amazon Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu.

Nginx + njs

njs scripting language reference and examples

Collection of njs use cases

JavaScript embedded on NGINX - Getting started with njs

Create Nginx extensions in JavaScript

Make your nginx config even more modular and reusable with njs 0.7.7

Diagnostic logging with the NGINX JavaScript module

How to log request headers with NGINX and njs

Using NGINX as an Object Storage Gateway via njs

Easy HTTPS with NGINX and ACME via njs

OpenResty

OpenResty - Fast web app server by extending Nginx

Lapis - A web framework for Lua or MoonScript powered by OpenResty

Nginx image processing server with OpenResty and Lua

Building an OpenResty events server

Ceryx - A dynamic reverse proxy

An Introduction To OpenResty

Programming OpenResty (written by the OpenResty creator)

VeryNginx - Nginx distribution which provides WAF, Control Panel, and Dashboards

SysAdvent 2014 - OpenResty, Nginx and Lua (Source)

Tengine

Tengine Web Server

Difference between OpenResty and Tengine

Talks

NGINX Conference 2019 Videos

NGINX Conference 2018 Videos

NGINX Conference 2017 Videos

NGINX Conference 2016 Videos

NGINX Conference 2015 Videos

NGINX Conference 2014 Videos

NGINX User Summit 2014 - Lightning talks