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About

About#

Angie /ˈendʒi/ 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 1.25.4 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.

Installation

A choice of ready-made Angie packages, Docker images, and source code build options.

Configuration

Startup and run-time control; configuration, modules, directives, and variables.

Troubleshooting

Resolving technical issues with Angie, available feedback routes.

Development

Information for developers who want to contribute to the project.

Current Version#

Angie 1.5.0 was released on 27.03.2024. New versions appear quarterly; in between, we publish urgent fixes and important updates.

Also, see the entire changelog.

Features#

Core advantages over nginx include the following:

  • Supporting HTTP/3 for client connections, as well as for proxied server connections, with the ability to independently use different protocol versions (HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2, HTTP/3) on opposite sides.

  • Automatic HTTPS provisions TLS certificates using built-in ACME support.

  • 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.

  • Recommissioning upstream servers after a failure smoothly using the slow_start option of the server directive.

  • Limiting the MP4 file transfer rate proportionally to its bitrate, thus reducing the bandwidth load.

  • Extending authorization and balancing capabilities for the MQTT protocol with the mqtt_preread directive under stream.

  • 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.

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