nginx（发音同 engine x）是一款轻量级的Web 服务器／反向代理服务器及电子邮件（IMAP/POP3）代理服务器，并在一个BSD-like 协议下发行。由俄罗斯的程序设计师Igor Sysoev所开发，最初供俄国大型的入口网站及搜寻引擎Rambler（俄文：Рамблер）使用。其特点是占有内存少，并发能力强，事实上 nginx的并发能力确实在同类型的网页伺服器中表现较好.目前中国大陆使用nginx网站用户有：新浪、网易、腾讯,另外知名的微网志Plurk也使用nginx。下载:
http://nginx.org/download/nginx-0.8.36.tar.gz (linux)
http://nginx.org/download/nginx-0.8.36.zip (win)

Changes with nginx 0.8.36                                        22 Apr 2010

   *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module handled incorrectly the DELETE,
      COPY, and MOVE methods for symlinks.

   *) Bugfix: values of the $query_string, $arg_..., etc. variables cached
      in main request were used by the SSI module in subrequests.

   *) Bugfix: a variable value was repeatedly encoded after each an "echo"
      SSI-command output; the bug had appeared in 0.6.14.

   *) Bugfix: a worker process hung if a FIFO file was requested.
      Thanks to Vicente Aguilar and Maxim Dounin.

   *) Bugfix: OpenSSL-1.0.0 compatibility on 64-bit Linux.
      Thanks to Maxim Dounin.

   *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
      appeared in 0.8.35.