About#

Angie is an efficient, powerful, and scalable web server that was forked from nginx:

Conceived by ex-devs from the original team to venture beyond the earlier vision and act as a drop-in replacement without major changes to module setup or configuration.
Includes all capabilities of nginx 1.25.2, including HTTP/3 support, and a number of new features.

We build binary packages for a range of systems and architectures, as well as Docker images. The source code is open in our public repositories under a BSD-like license.

Current Version#

Angie 1.3.2 was released on November 23, 2023. New versions appear quarterly; in between, we publish urgent fixes and important updates.

Also, see the entire changelog.

Core advantages over nginx include the following:

Simplifying configuration: the location directive can define several matching expressions at once, which enables combining blocks with shared settings.
Exposing basic information about the web server, its configuration, as well as metrics of proxied servers, client connections, shared memory zones, and many other things via a RESTful API interface in JSON format.
Exporting statistics in Prometheus format with customizable templates.
Monitoring the server through the browser with the Console Light visual monitoring tool. See the online demo: https://console.angie.software/
Automatically updating lists of proxied servers matching a domain name or retrieving such lists from SRV DNS records.
Session binding mode, which directs all requests within one session to the same proxied server.
Pre-built binary packages for many popular third-party modules.
Server- and client-side support for NTLS when using the TongSuo TLS library, enabled at build time.

Tip

Also, check out Angie PRO’s advanced capabilities.