What is Nginx?

[adrianjohnson165]

Hi,
anybody use Nginx, or “engine x server, so

What is Nginx and its features share your idea with us.

Thanks.

[freyacooper]

Nginx, or “engine x,” is a server with HTTP functionality, reverse-proxy functionality, and mail-proxy functionality. Nginx specializes in efficiently delivering large amounts of static content, particularly HTML and media files. It is less than optimal for handling dynamic content.

Nginx uses an asynchronous event-driven model while diverting dynamic content to protocols or web servers better suited to handling it.

Some HTTP and web-proxy features include:

• FastCGI, SCGI, uWSGI support with caching
• Web page access authentication
• Serving static and index files; auto-indexing
• Reverse proxy with caching
• Modular architecture with a variety of filters
• Fault tolerance
• Embedded Perl
• Bandwidth throttling
• URL rewriting
• Response-rate limiting

Mail proxy features include:

• POP3, SMTP, and IMAP proxy
• TLS/SSL support
• Authentication using an external HTTP server
• STARTTLS support

[charliethrse]

NGINX is an open source web server, reverse proxy, caching, load balancing, video streaming, and other applications. It began as a web server with the goal of providing maximum performance and stability.

[millerconnor85]

NGINX is an open source web server, reverse proxy, caching, load balancing, video streaming, and other applications. It began as a web server with the goal of providing maximum performance and stability.