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://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.8.29.tar.gz (linux)
http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.8.29.zip (win)
Changes with nginx 0.8.29 30 Nov 2009
*) Change: now the "009" status code is written to an access log for
proxied HTTP/0.9 responses.
*) Feature: the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
"ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives support
an "*" parameter.
*) Feature: GCC 4.1+ built-in atomic operations usage.
Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
*) Feature: the --with-libatomic[=DIR] option in the configure.
Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
*) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket had limited access rights.
*) Bugfix: cached HTTP/0.9 responses were handled incorrectly.
*) Bugfix: regular expression named captures given by "?P<...>" did not
work in a "server_name" directive.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.