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
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
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
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