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-0.8.41.tar.gz (linux)
http://nginx.org/download/nginx-0.8.41.zip (win)
Changes with nginx 0.8.41 15 Jun 2010
*) Security: nginx/Windows worker might be terminated abnormally if a
requested file name has invalid UTF-8 encoding.
*) Change: now nginx allows to use spaces in a request line.
*) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directive changed incorrectly a backend
"Refresh" response header line.
Thanks to Andrey Andreew and Max Sogin.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not support path without host name in
"Destination" request header line.
另外nginx 0.7.67 稳定版同时发布.