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, 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
• agentzh's Nginx Tutorials (Source)
• Introduction to nginx.conf scripting
• Load Balancing with NGINX and NGINX Plus (Part 2)
• Optimizing Nginx for High Traffic Loads
• NGINX as a WebSockets Proxy
• HTTP Keepalive Connections and Web Performance
• CORS on Nginx
• 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
• Nginx and Lua
• 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
• SysAdvent 2014 - OpenResty, Nginx and Lua (Source)
• 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

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

License

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