Awesome Nginx

A curated list of awesome nginx distributions, third party modules, active developers and so forth.

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Table of Contents

• Well-known Distributions
• Embeddable Scripting Languages
• Third Party Modules
  • C Modules
  • Rust Modules
  • Lua Modules
• Built-in Modules
• Njs Projects
• Tools
• Tutorials
• Mailing Lists
• Forum
• Active Developers

Well-known Distributions

• NGINX
• FreeNGINX
• OpenResty
• Tengine
• Angie

Embeddable Scripting Languages

• lua
• javascript (njs)
• perl
• mruby
• clojure
• php
• wasm

Builder

This is bash command line builder that uses this curated list to automate installing and compiling nginx

• nginx-builder

Third Party Modules

These modules are not distributed with the Nginx source.

C Modules

• lua-nginx-module - Embed the Power of Lua into NGINX.
• nginx-rtmp-module - NGINX-based Media Streaming Server.
• xss-nginx-module - Native support for cross-site scripting (XSS) in an nginx.
• srcache-nginx-module - Transparent subrequest-based caching layout for arbitrary nginx locations.
• replace-filter-nginx-module - Streaming regular expression replacement in response bodies.
• rds-json-nginx-module - An nginx output filter that formats Resty DBD Streams generated by ngx_drizzle and others to JSON.
• echo-nginx-module - An Nginx module for bringing the power of "echo", "sleep", "time" and more to Nginx's config file.
• headers-more-nginx-module - Set, add, and clear arbitrary output headers.
• rds-csv-nginx-module - Nginx output filter module to convert Resty-DBD-Streams (RDS) to Comma-Separated Values (CSV).
• memc-nginx-module - An extended version of the standard memcached module that supports set, add, delete, and many more memcached commands..
• encrypted-session-nginx-module - encrypt and decrypt nginx variable values.
• redis2-nginx-module - Nginx upstream module for the Redis 2.0 protocol.
• drizzle-nginx-module - an nginx upstream module that talks to mysql and drizzle by libdrizzle.
• array-var-nginx-module - Add support for array-typed variables to nginx config files.
• set-misc-nginx-module - Various set_xxx directives added to nginx's rewrite module (md5/sha1, sql/json quoting, and many more).
• nginx-eval-module - A module for evaluating memcached or proxy response into variable.
• ngx_pagespeed - Automatic PageSpeed optimization module for Nginx.
• ngx_devel_kit - Nginx Development Kit - an Nginx module that adds additional generic tools that module developers can use in their own modules.
• ngx_cache_purge - nginx module which adds ability to purge content from FastCGI, proxy, SCGI and uWSGI caches.
• ngx_postgres - upstream module that allows nginx to communicate directly with PostgreSQL database.
• nginx-backtrace - A Nginx module to dump backtrace when a worker process exits abnormally.
• nginx-http-concat - A Nginx module for concatenating files in a given context: CSS and JS files usually.
• nginx-http-user-agent - A nginx module to match browsers and crawlers.
• nginx-http-footer-filter - A nginx module that prints some text in the footer of a request.
• nginx-http-slice - Nginx module for serving a file in slices (reverse byte-range).
• nginx-clojure - Nginx module for embedding Clojure or Java or Groovy programs, typically those Ring based handlers.
• nginx-audio-track-for-hls-module - Nginx module that generates audio track for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) streams on the fly.
• nginx-access-plus - nginx module allows limiting access to certain http request methods and client addresses.
• ngx_http_subrange_module - Split one big HTTP/Range request to multiple subrange requesets.
• nginx_tcp_proxy_module - add the feature of tcp proxy with nginx, with health check and status monitor.
• nginx_ajp_module - support AJP protocol proxy with Nginx.
• ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module - a filter module which can do both regular expression and fixed string substitutions for nginx.
• nginx-sticky-module - A nginx module to add an upstream server persistance using cookies.
• nginx-http-sysguard - A Nginx module to protect servers when system load or memory use goes too high.
• nginx-tfs - An Asynchronous Nginx module providing a RESTful API for TFS (Taobao File System).
• ngx_aws_auth - nginx module to proxy to authenticated AWS services.
• nginx_mod_akamai_g2o - Nginx Module for Authenticating Akamai G2O requests.
• ngx_supervisord - nginx module providing API to communicate with supervisord and manage (start/stop) backends on-demand.
• ngx_http_google_filter_module - Nginx Module for Google Mirror.
• ngx_http_dyups_module - update upstreams' config by restful interface.
• ngx_sync_msg_module - This module provides a mechanism to sync messages between workers for your module.
• nginx-upload-module - A module for nginx web server for handling file uploads using multipart/form-data encoding (RFC 1867).
• nginx-video-thumbextractor-module - Nginx module to extract thumbs from a video file.
• nginx-push-stream-module - A pure stream http push technology for your Nginx setup. Comet made easy and really scalable.
• nginx-module-vts - Nginx virtual host traffic status module.
• url-protector-nginx-module - Nginx module which adds ability to decrypt strings encrypted with xxtea algorithm.
• nginx-module-url - Nginx url encoding converting module.
• ngx_small_light - Dynamic Image Transformation Module For nginx.
• nginx-upstream-fair - The fair load balancer module for nginx.
• nginx_modSecurity - ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx that is developed by Trustwave's SpiderLabs.
• nginx-fluentd-module - Nginx module for Fluentd data collector.
• ngx_zeromq - ZeroMQ transport for nginx.
• ngx_cache_viewer - nginx module which adds ability to view cache node info from FastCGI, proxy, SCGI and uWSGI caches.
• nginx_http_push_module - Turn NGiNX into an adept HTTP push server.
• nginx-selective-cache-purge-module - A module to purge cache by GLOB patterns..
• naxsi - NAXSI is an open-source, high performance, low rules maintenance WAF for NGINX.
• couchbase-nginx-module - The module for nginx webserver to access Couchbase Server.
• protobuf-nginx - Google Protocol Buffers code generator for nginx module developers.
• testcookie-nginx-module - simple robot mitigation module using cookie based challenge/response technique.
• nginx_circle_gif - this module generates simple circle images with the colors and size specified in the URL.
• ngx_http_estreaming_module - An adaptive hls streaming module for nginx.
• ngx_mruby - ngx_mruby - A Fast and Memory-Efficient Web Server Extension Mechanism Using Scripting Language mruby for nginx.
• ngx_http_geoip2_module - creates variables with values from the maxmind geoip2 databases based on the client IP (supports both IPv4 and IPv6).
• tcp-nginx-module - Use nginx as a common TCP server framework.
• ngx_openresty - Turning Nginx into a Full-fledged Web App Server.
• iconv-nginx-module - a character conversion nginx module using libiconv.
• form-input-nginx-module - This is a nginx module that reads HTTP POST and PUT request body encoded in "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", and parse the arguments in request body into nginx variables..
• ngx-ip2location - Nginx IP2Location Module.
• nginx-hmux-module - The module implements resin's hmux protocol in nginx.
• nginx_ocsp_proxy-module - Nginx OCSP processing module designed for response caching.
• nginx-hmac-secure-link - Alternative Nginx secure link module with support for MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-2 hashes.
• waf-nginx-module - A lightweight web application firewall module for nginx..
• ngx-gm-filter - Another image filter based GraphicsMagick..
• nginx-mod-so - nginx_mod_so is dynamic loadable module for Nginx.
• nginx-auth-ldap - LDAP authentication module for nginx.
• nginx-xsltproc-module - XSLT processor bases on Nginx.
• nginx-dlg-auth - NGINX module for delegating authentication and authorization to an HTTP gateway.
• ngx_http_qqwry_module - A nginx module that creates variables with location info from QQWry.
• nginx-markdown-module - renderize markdown as HTML directly from your upstream server.
• nginx-nonewlines - This is an nginx module to strip the served HTML of all newlines (\n and \r characters).
• nginx-udplog-module - Implementation of logging using BSD Syslog Protocol for nginx (RFC 3164).
• nginx-fancyindex - nginx fancy index module.
• nginx_ipset_blacklist - nginx module to use linux netfilter ipsets as blacklists.
• nginx-mogilefs-module - MogileFS client for nginx.
• ngx_http_php_session - nginx module to parse php sessions.
• ngx_trace - runtime call tracer for nginx.
• nginx-qrcode - Native QR encoding for Nginx Web Server.
• nginx-dav-ext-module - NGINX WebDAV missing methods support (PROPFIND & OPTIONS).
• nginx-gridfs - Nginx module for serving files from MongoDB's GridFS.
• Session-Binding-Proxy - An Nginx module capable of binding the application session to the SSL session by encrypting the application cookie with a secret key and the SSL master key.
• ngx_http_gif_magick - nginx http filter module for dynamically resizing gifs with ImageMagick.
• nginx-upload-progress-module - Nginx module implementing an upload progress system, that monitors RFC1867 POST uploads as they are transmitted to upstream servers.
• ngx_http_avatars_gen_module - Nginx module for on-the-fly generating of avatars based on user initials.
• ngx_http_proxy_connect_module - A forward proxy module for CONNECT request handling
• modjpeg-nginx - Filter module for adding overlays and logos to JPEGs on-the-fly without degrading the quality of the image.
• nginx-c-function - It is a NGINX module that allow you to link your .so(c/c++) application in server context and call the function of .so application in location directive.
• ngx_lfqueue - a lock free queue(enq/deq) container running on nginx share memory and it enqueue/dequeue the messages across multiple threads and multiple workers without any locking.
• ngx_lfstack - a lock free stack(push/pop) container running on nginx share memory and it push/pop the messages across multiple threads and multiple workers without any locking.
• ngx-stomp - A STOMP upstream module on nginx, STOMP is the Simple (or Streaming) Text Orientated Messaging Protocol.
• nginx-elastic-client - To structure your elastic client command in your nginx proxy for multiple elasticsearch server.
• zstd-nginx-module - Nginx modules for the Zstandard compression.
• nginx_upstream_check_module - Health checks upstreams for nginx.
• ngx_php - Embedded php script language for nginx-module.
• ngx_http_guess_mime_module - Guess the MIME type of files served using libmagic.
• ngx_http_stat_check - Dynamic access blacklisting configuration via filesystem paths.
• nginx_mime_magic_module - Another MIME guesser using libmagic with configurable Magic database path and fallback or compulsory mode.
• nginx-otel - Module providing support for OpenTelemetry distributed tracing.
• nginx-http-est - Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) module for Nginx
• nginx-http-auth-totp - Time-based one-time password (TOTP) authentication for Nginx
• ngx_status_module - Nginx mod status module similar to Apache plugin

Rust Modules

• ngx-rust - Rust bindings for Nginx modules.

Lua Modules

• lua-resty-redis - Lua redis client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API.
• lua-resty-memcached - Lua memcached client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API.
• lua-resty-mysql - Nonblocking Lua MySQL driver library for ngx_lua.
• lua-resty-postgres - Nonblocking Lua PostgreSQL driver library for ngx_lua.
• lua-resty-cassandra - Pure Lua Cassandra client using CQL binary protocol.
• lua-resty-fastcgi - Lua FCGI client driver for ngx_lua based on the cosocket API.
• lua-resty-ssdb - Lua ssdb client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API, SSDB is a leveldb server.
• lua-resty-fastdfs - Nonblocking Lua FastDFS driver library for ngx_lua.
• lua-resty-mongol - Lua MongoDB driver.
• lua-resty-oceanbase - Lua OceanBase client driver for ngx_lua based on the cosocket API.
• lua-resty-lrucache - Lua-land LRU Cache based on LuaJIT FFI.
• lua-resty-core - New FFI-based API for lua-nginx-module.
• lua-resty-upload - Streaming reader and parser for http file uploading based on ngx_lua cosocket.
• lua-resty-websocket - WebSocket support for the ngx_lua module (and OpenResty).
• lua-resty-dns - DNS resolver for the nginx lua module.
• lua-resty-string - String utilities and common hash functions for ngx_lua and LuaJIT.
• lua-redis-parser - Lua module for parsing raw redis responses.
• lua-rds-parser - Resty DBD Stream (RDS) parser for Lua written in C.
• lua-resty-http - Lua HTTP client cosocket driver for OpenResty / ngx_lua.
• lua-resty-template - Templating Engine (HTML) for Lua and OpenResty
• lua-resty-cookie - Lua library for HTTP cookie manipulations for OpenResty/ngx_lua.
• lua-resty-kafka - Lua kafka client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API.
• lua-resty-rabbitmqstomp - Opinionated Lua RabbitMQ client library for the ngx_lua apps based on the cosocket API.
• lua-resty-logger-socket - Raw-socket-based Logger Library for Nginx.
• lua-resty-beanstalkd - non-blocking beanstalkd client lib for ngx_lua.
• lua-resty-libcjson - LuaJIT FFI-based cJSON library for OpenResty.
• lua-resty-session - Session library for OpenResty implementing Secure Cookie Protocol.
• lua-resty-validation - Validation Library (Input Validation and Filtering) for Lua and OpenResty.
• lua-resty-random - LuaJIT FFI-based Random Library for OpenResty.
• lua-resty-scrypt - LuaJIT FFI-based scrypt library for OpenResty.
• lua-resty-uuid - LuaJIT FFI bindings for libuuid, a DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library.
• lua-resty-hoedown - LuaJIT FFI bindings to Hoedown, a standards compliant, fast, secure markdown processing library in C.
• lua-resty-snappy - LuaJIT FFI bindings for Snappy, a fast compressor/decompressor.
• lua-resty-nettle - LuaJIT FFI bindings for Nettle (a low-level cryptographic library).
• lua-resty-rack - A simple and extensible HTTP server framework for OpenResty.
• lua-resty-upstream - Upstream connection load balancing and failover module for Openresty.
• lua-resty-dns-cache - Cache wrapper for lua-resty-dns.
• lua-resty-consul - Library to interface with the consul HTTP API from ngx_lua.
• lua-resty-gearman - Lua gearman client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API.
• lua-resty-jwt - JWT For The Great Openresty.
• lua-resty-shell - tiny subprocess/shell library to use with OpenResty application server.
• lua-resty-rsa - RSA encrypt/decrypt & sign/verify for LuaJIT.
• lua-resty-smtp - I must be crazy trying to send mail with Nginx..
• lua-resty-riak - Lua riak protocol buffer client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API.
• lua-resty-iputils - Utility functions for working with IP addresses in Openresty.
• lua-resty-qless - Lua binding to Qless (Queue / Pipeline management) for OpenResty.
• lua-resty-hmac - HMAC functions for ngx_lua and LuaJIT.
• lua-resty-kyototycoon - Lua client driver for KyotoTycoon using its native wire protocol (OpenResty/ngx_lua).
• lua-resty-libxl - LuaJIT FFI-based LibXL (Excel) library for OpenResty.
• lua-resty-gettext - LuaJIT FFI-based gettext library for OpenResty.
• lua-resty-github - Lua library for using the github api in the ngx_lua nginx module.
• lua-resty-murmurhash2 - LuaJIT MurmurHash 2 bindings to Nginx / OpenResty murmurhash2 implementation.
• lua-resty-hipchat - Lua library for using the hipchat api.
• lua-resty-readurl - Lua library for capturing urls, decoding, and logging results.
• lua-resty-kyototycoon - kyototycoon's binary protocol.
• lua-resty-mobile - Mobile detection for nginx/openresty.
• lua-resty-fileinfo - LuaJIT FFI bindings to libmagic, magic number recognition library - tries to determine file types.
• lua-resty-sass - LuaJIT FFI bindings for libsass - A C/C++ implementation of a Sass compiler.
• lua-resty-taglib - LuaJIT FFI bindings for TagLib - An Audio Meta-Data Library.
• lua-resty-woothee - Woothee Lua-Openresty implementation.
• lua-resty-json - json lib for lua and C.
• ngx_lua_waf - lua waf based on ngx_lua.
• lua-resty-limit-req - Limit the request processing rate between multiple NGINX instances.
• LuaWeb - A very simple blog engine using openresty, nginx, lua, markdown, git and redis.
• lua-nginx-osm - OpenStreetMap extension for Nginx Lua module.
• nginx-tcp-lua-module - A TCP server with lua supporting based on nginx.
• nginx-google-oauth - Lua module to add Google OAuth to nginx.
• lua-upstream-nginx-module - Nginx C module to expose Lua API to ngx_lua for Nginx upstreams.
• lua-resty-upstream-healthcheck - Health Checker for Nginx Upstream Servers in Pure Lua.
• lua-resty-lock - Simple nonblocking lock API for ngx_lua based on shared memory dictionaries.

Built-in Modules

For more details, see nginx.org.

Njs Projects

• njs-types - Provides type script type definitions for njs.
• njs-examples - Examples of njs usage.
• nginx-njs-usecases - A collection of njs use cases.
• njs-acme - ACME protocol implementation in njs allowing Let's Encrypt certificates to be issued directly from nginx.
• nginx-s3-gateway - S3 gateway for Nginx allowing to proxy requests directly to S3 private buckets.
• njs-memory-profiler - Tool to understand per-request memory usage of njs scripts.
• nginx-dns - Example njs configuration for using Nginx with DNS services.
• njs-prometheus-module - Converts NGINX metrics exposed by the API module to a Prometheus format.
• nginx-xml-json - Proof-of-concept solution for presenting XML services as a JSON API.
• mqtt5 - MQTT 5.0 protocol parser implemented in njs.
• babel-preset-njs - A Babel preset for njs - NGINX JavaScript.
• njs-typescript-starter - A starting template for developing njs (NGINX JavaScript) scripts for NGINX server in TypeScript.

Tools

• nginx-devel-utils - Utilities for nginx module development.
• gixy - Nginx configuration static analyzer
• no-pool-nginx - replace nginx's pool mechanism with plain malloc & free to help tools like valgrind.
• nginx-dtrace - An nginx fork that adds dtrace USDT probes.
• test-nginx - Data-driven test scaffold for Nginx C module and OpenResty Lua library development.
• nginx-systemtap-toolkit - Real-time analyzing and diagnosing tools for Nginx based on SystemTap.
• nginx-gdb-utils - GDB Utilities for Nginx, ngx_lua, LuaJIT, and etc.
• apache2nginx - A command line tool, which can be used to generate nginx config file according to given config files of Apache.
• nginx-build - seamless nginx builder.
• puppet-nginx - Puppet Module to manage NGINX on various UNIXes.
• server-configs-nginx - Nginx HTTP server boilerplate configs.
• nginx-boilerplate - Awesome Nginx configuration template.
• ngxtop - Real-time metrics for nginx server.
• GoAccess - real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
• nginx-conf - A collection of useful Nginx configuration snippets.
• libngxcore - libngxcore is the library built from nginx core APIs..
• nginx-cache-purge - A bash script for deleting items from Nginx cache.
• ngx-admintools - Debian Administration Tools for nginx web server.
• nginx-config-formatter - Nginx config file formatter/beautifier written in Python.
• veryNginx - A very powerful and friendly nginx base on lua-nginx-module( openresty ) which provide WAF, Control Panel, and Dashboards.
• akamai-nginx - Autoconfigure nginx based on Akamai property api rules using generated lua.
• nginxconfig.io - GitHub - Online nginx configuration generator for general purposes.
• nginx-opentracing - NGINX plugin for OpenTracing.
• nixy - Nginx auto configuration and service discovery for Mesos/Marathon
• build-nginx - An nginx build tool to really simplify downloading and building specific versions of nginx with different core and 3rd-party modules.
• nginx-autoinstall - Compile Nginx from source with custom modules on Debian and Ubuntu
• nginx-proxy-manager - Webinterface to manage nginx reverse-proxys with Letsencrypt support.
• bunkerized-nginx - nginx Docker image secure by default.
• nginx-proxy - Automated nginx proxy for Docker containers using docker-gen.
• nginx-lua - Nginx 1.19+ with LUA support based on Alpine Linux, Amazon Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu.
• nginx-testing - Support for integration/acceptance testing of nginx configuration in TypeScript/JavaScript.
• nginx-binaries - Nginx and njs binaries for Linux (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le), macOS and Windows; Linux binaries are static so works on every Linux.
• NPMplus - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

Tutorials

• Nginx admin guide - Nginx and nginx plus admin guide.
• Nginx documentation - Nginx documentation introduction.
• Nginx blog - News, views, and how-tos from nginx.
• Nginx beginner’s Guide - This guide gives a basic introduction to nginx and describes some simple tasks that can be done with it.
• Nginx tutorials - Nginx tutorials by Agentzh.
• Nginx docs cn - The chinese translation of nginx documentation.
• Nginx book - Nginx from primer to expert (In Chinese).
• Nginx module development - Emiller's guide to nginx module development.
• OpenResty best practice - OpenResty best practice(In Chinese).
• Nginx-cheatsheet - A quick reference to common server configurations from serving static files to using in congruency with Node.js applications.
• Monitoring Nginx on Kubernetes - Deployment options, use cases, metrics and alerts for containerized Nginx instances on Kubernetes.

Mailing Lists

• Nginx Mailman

Forum

• Nginx Forum
• Nginx Community Slack
• OpenResty Forum

Active Developers

• Maxim Dounin
• Roman Arutyunyan
• Sergey Kandaurov