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awesome-nginx

Curated list of production-grade NGINX modules, tools, distributions and learning resources, by GetPageSpeed.
https://github.com/getpagespeed/awesome-nginx

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  • Authentication

  • Bot mitigation

  • Caching and compression

    • cache-purge - Purge content from FastCGI, proxy, SCGI and uWSGI caches by URL. 📦
    • ngx_brotli - Brotli compression module (GetPageSpeed fork of google/ngx_brotli with regular releases). 📦
    • compression-vary - Enhanced Vary header handling for compression, emits the right Vary without duplicates. 📦
    • immutable - Marks public assets with Cache-Control: immutable so browsers stop revalidating fingerprinted files. 📦
    • ngx_dynamic_etag - Adds correct ETag headers to dynamic responses, enabling 304s on proxied content. 📦
    • ngx_http_compression_normalize_module - Parses and normalizes the Accept-Encoding header so caches see one canonical form. 📦
    • ngx_http_unzstd_filter_module - Decompresses Zstd-encoded upstream responses for clients that don't support Zstd. 📦
    • ngx_slowfs_cache - Caches static files served from slow filesystems. 📦
    • ngx_unbrotli - Decompresses Brotli-encoded upstream responses for clients that don't support Brotli. 📦
    • sorted-args - Normalizes query-string parameter order to dramatically improve cache hit rates. 📦
    • srcache-nginx-module - Transparent subrequest-based caching for arbitrary NGINX locations. 📦
    • zstd-nginx-module - Zstandard compression module for NGINX (by tokers). 📦

  • Configuration and tooling

    • gixy - Static analyzer that catches alias-traversal, SSRF, host-header attacks and other NGINX config footguns.
    • crossplane - Convert NGINX configs to and from JSON, fork of the NGINX Amplify tool with fixes.
    • gixy-jetbrains - JetBrains IDE plugin surfacing gixy findings inline.
    • Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator - Mozilla-maintained generator for the TLS / cipher configuration block.
    • nginx-honeypot - Run an NGINX honeypot to capture and study attacker behaviour.
    • nginxconfig.io - Online NGINX config generator with sensible TLS, performance and security defaults.
    • nginxpwner - Look for common NGINX misconfigurations and exploitable patterns.
    • ngxtop - Real-time NGINX top, like `top` for your traffic.
    • off-by-slash - Detect alias-traversal misconfigurations (the trailing-slash class of bugs).

  • Distributions and forks

    • nginx - Official NGINX source repository, mirrored from the canonical Mercurial.
    • angie - Modern NGINX fork by ex-NGINX core engineers, adds ACME, HTTP/3, observability.
    • freenginx - Community fork of NGINX maintained by long-time NGINX core developer Maxim Dounin.
    • openresty - Dynamic web platform based on NGINX and LuaJIT, bundling many modules out of the box.
    • tengine - Alibaba's NGINX fork with dynamic upstream, request-trace and additional optimisations.

  • Documentation and learning

  • Headers, cookies and response filters

  • Honourable mentions

  • Logging and observability

  • Lua and OpenResty ecosystem

    • lua-nginx-module - Embed the power of LuaJIT into NGINX's HTTP request lifecycle. 📦
    • array-var-nginx-module - Array-typed variables for the OpenResty stack. 📦
    • echo-nginx-module - Echo, sleep, time and exec directives for the content phase. 📦
    • encrypted-session-nginx-module - Encrypt and decrypt NGINX variable values, for sessionless session cookies. 📦
    • lua-upstream-nginx-module - Lua API for controlling NGINX upstreams at runtime. 📦
    • memc-nginx-module - Extended memcached upstream module (full memcached command set, not just GET). 📦
    • nginx-eval-module - Evaluate memcached or proxy response into a variable. 📦
    • ngx_devel_kit - Nginx Devel Kit, generic toolkit that many third-party modules depend on. 📦
    • ngx_wasm_module - Proxy-Wasm (WebAssembly) support for NGINX, powered by wasmtime. 📦
    • njs - Official JavaScript scripting in NGINX (subset of ES5 + extensions). 📦
    • redis2-nginx-module - Native upstream for the Redis 2.0+ protocol, full pipelining. 📦
    • set-misc-nginx-module - Provides set_xxx directives (md5, sha1, base64, hex, escape, quote) for the rewrite phase. 📦
    • stream-lua-nginx-module - Embed LuaJIT into NGINX's stream {} (TCP/UDP) processing. 📦

  • Networking and protocols

    • nginx-cgi - Run classic CGI scripts under NGINX. 📦
    • nginx-dav-ext-module - Adds PROPFIND, OPTIONS, LOCK and UNLOCK to NGINX's core WebDAV. 📦
    • Nginx-DOH-Module - Serve DNS-over-HTTPS responses straight from NGINX. 📦
    • nginx_ajp_module - Apache AJP13 protocol upstream (talk to Tomcat / JBoss natively). 📦
    • ngx_coolkit - Collection of small NGINX utilities, encoding, time helpers, IP utilities. 📦
    • ngx_http_geoip2_module - MaxMind GeoIP2 lookups into NGINX variables. 📦
    • ngx_http_proxy_connect_module - Adds HTTP CONNECT (forward-proxy) support to NGINX. 📦
    • rdns - Reverse-DNS lookup of the client IP into NGINX variables. 📦

  • Packaging and distribution

    • extras.getpagespeed.com - Production-grade RPM and DEB repository with 130+ NGINX modules across all major distributions.
    • docker-nginx - Official NGINX Docker images.
    • lastversion - Find and download the latest release of any project on GitHub / GitLab / SourceForge / PyPI / Hg / official sites.
    • nginx.org Linux packages - Official NGINX binary packages for Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, Amazon Linux, SLES.

  • Performance and optimization

    • incubator-pagespeed-ngx - Apache mod_pagespeed for NGINX, automatic CSS/JS/image optimization at the edge. 📦
    • nginx-link-function - Dlopen application code straight into NGINX request handling for ultra-low-latency endpoints. 📦
    • nginx-sxg-module - Signed HTTP Exchange (SXG) support, prefetch with original-origin attribution. 📦
    • passenger - Phusion Passenger application server module, runs Ruby/Python/Node apps inside NGINX. 📦
    • tuning - Observes real traffic patterns and proposes data-driven NGINX tuning. 📦

  • Security and WAF

    • nginx-acme - Automatic certificate management (ACMEv2) module for NGINX, by F5/NGINX Inc. 📦
    • ModSecurity-nginx - ModSecurity v3 connector for NGINX. 📦
    • naxsi - Open-source positive-model WAF for NGINX. 📦
    • ngx_security_headers - Sends modern security headers (CSP, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy) and strips insecure ones. 📦
    • ngx_waf - High-performance, ModSecurity-compatible WAF module for NGINX. 📦

  • Streaming, media and image processing

    • nginx-rtmp-module - RTMP media streaming server based on the historical nginx-rtmp-module. 📦
    • f4fhds - HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) f4f fragment handler (Adobe legacy). 📦
    • immerse - Modern-image-format filter: transparent WebP and AVIF delivery based on Accept. 📦
    • ipscrub - Anonymizes client IP addresses in access logs (k-anonymity-style). 📦
    • markdown - Renders Markdown files to HTML on the fly. 📦
    • media-framework - Kaltura Media Framework shared module, HTTP API, events, persistence and Lua interop. 📦
    • mod_zip - Assembles ZIP archives on the fly from a manifest of upstream URLs. 📦
    • modjpeg-nginx - JPEG filter for overlays, logos and watermarks on JPEGs in flight. 📦
    • nchan - Scalable pub/sub server inside NGINX: HTTP, WebSocket, Server-Sent Events and long-polling. 📦
    • nginx-http-flv-module - HTTP-FLV streaming on top of nginx-rtmp-module. 📦
    • nginx-push-stream-module - HTTP push (Comet, EventSource, long-polling, WebSocket) as a pure-NGINX pub/sub stream. 📦
    • nginx-srt-module - Haivision SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) TCP gateway module. 📦
    • nginx-ts-module - MPEG-TS live streaming module. 📦
    • nginx-vod-module - On-the-fly MP4 repackager to DASH, HDS, HLS and MSS (by Kaltura). 📦
    • ngx_http_html_sanitize_module - HTML5 sanitizer based on Google Gumbo, whitelisted elements, attributes and CSS. 📦
    • ngx_http_untar_module - Serves file content directly out of tar archives. 📦
    • ngx_small_light - Dynamic image transformation (resize, crop, rotate, watermark). 📦
    • ngx_webp - On-the-fly WebP conversion of JPEG and PNG responses. 📦

  • Upstreams, rate limiting and access control

  • Variables, JSON and extensibility

    • form-input-nginx-module - Parses application/x-www-form-urlencoded request bodies into variables. 📦
    • iconv-nginx-module - Character-set conversion of request and response bodies via libiconv. 📦
    • nginx-json-var-module - Group variable expressions as a JSON value for clean logging. 📦
    • nginx-keyval - Key-value store backed module, variables sourced from disk-backed KV pairs. 📦
    • nginx-let-module - Arithmetic and string expressions in the rewrite phase. 📦
    • ngx_http_json_module - Dumps a $json variable into a string. 📦
    • ngx_http_label_module - Define global key-value labels for dynamic configuration. 📦
    • ngx_http_var_module - Dynamically assign variables via predefined functions (math, string, hash). 📦
    • ngx_postgres - Direct PostgreSQL upstream, no PHP / app layer needed for read-heavy paths. 📦
Programming Languages
C 96 Perl 6 Python 4 Shell 3 C++ 2 HTML 1 Kotlin 1 Rust 1 Go 1
Categories
Streaming, media and image processing 18 Honourable mentions 17 Upstreams, rate limiting and access control 16 Authentication 16 Headers, cookies and response filters 14 Lua and OpenResty ecosystem 13 Logging and observability 13 Caching and compression 12 Documentation and learning 10 Variables, JSON and extensibility 9 Configuration and tooling 9 Networking and protocols 8 Bot mitigation 6 Performance and optimization 5 Distributions and forks 5 Security and WAF 5 Packaging and distribution 4
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Keywords
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