nginx

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nginx

Summary

nginx is a web server^[1]. nginx ranks in the top 5% of web_server entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (27,827 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

nginx is the creator of NGINX, Inc.^[3].
nginx's instance of is recorded as web server^[4].
nginx's instance of is recorded as proxy server^[5].
nginx's instance of is recorded as free software^[6].
nginx's founder is recorded as Igor Sysoev^[7].
nginx's founder is recorded as Maxim Dounin^[8].
nginx's developer is recorded as Maxim Dounin^[9].
nginx's developer is recorded as Igor Sysoev^[10].
nginx's copyright license is recorded as 2-clause BSD License^[11].
nginx's programmed in is recorded as Q15777^[12].
nginx's operating system is recorded as Unix-like operating system^[13].
nginx's operating system is recorded as Microsoft Windows^[14].
nginx's software version identifier is recorded as 1.6.1^[15].
nginx's software version identifier is recorded as 1.4.7^[16].
nginx's software version identifier is recorded as 1.4.6^[17].
nginx's software version identifier is recorded as 1.4.4^[18].
nginx's software version identifier is recorded as 1.2.0^[19].
nginx's software version identifier is recorded as 1.0.0^[20].
nginx's software version identifier is recorded as 0.8.53^[21].
nginx's software version identifier is recorded as 1.0.5^[22].
nginx's software version identifier is recorded as 1.2.9^[23].
nginx's software version identifier is recorded as 1.6.2^[24].
nginx's software version identifier is recorded as 1.6.3^[25].
nginx's software version identifier is recorded as 1.8.0^[26].
nginx's software version identifier is recorded as 1.9.0^[27].

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Authorship and Creation

nginx is the creator of NGINX, Inc.^[3].

Why It Matters

nginx ranks in the top 5% of web_server entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (27,827 views/month).^[2] nginx has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] nginx is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]

⭐ Popularity Graph

20/100 established

🌐 Wiki Languages

41 / 423 langs top 5%

📈 Wikipedia Views · last 712h

73/mo 99.7K/yr

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Quick Facts

Instance of web server, proxy server, free software

Inception October 4, 2004

Founder Igor Sysoev, Maxim Dounin

Publication date October 4, 2004

Official website nginx.org

Properties

Creator NGINX, Inc.

Derivative work YunoHost

Developer Maxim Dounin, Igor Sysoev

Distribution format digital download

Faq url nginx.org

Has command line option ?, h, c, g, p, q, s, t, T, v, V

Issue tracker url github.com

Official blog url blog.nginx.org

Official forum url community.nginx.org

Operating system Unix-like operating system, Microsoft Windows

P14659 nginx.org

Programmed in C

Protocol HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTPS, Internet Message Access Protocol, Post Office Protocol 3, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Readable file format PEM encoded certificate, PEM encoded RSA private key, Nginx sites-available, Nginx configuration file

Social media followers 106k (106k–109k, n=3)

Software version identifier 1.6.1, 1.4.7, 1.4.6, 1.4.4, 1.2.0, 1.0.0, 0.8.53, 1.0.5, 1.2.9, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.9.3, 1.9.5, 1.9.6, 1.9.7, 1.9.8, 1.9.9, 1.9.10, 1.8.1, 1.10.0, 1.11.0, 1.11.2, 1.11.4, 1.11.5, 1.10.3, 1.11.9, 1.12.0, 1.13.0, 1.13.4, 1.12.1, 1.13.5, 1.13.6, 1.13.7, 1.13.8, 1.13.9, 1.13.10, 1.13.11, 1.13.12, 1.14.0, 1.15.0, 1.15.1, 1.15.2, 1.15.4, 1.15.5, 1.15.7, 1.15.8, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5, 1.5.6, 1.5.7, 1.5.8, 1.5.9, 1.5.10, 1.5.11, 1.5.12, 1.5.13, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8, 1.7.9, 1.7.10, 1.7.11, 1.7.12, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.4, 1.9.11, 1.9.12, 1.9.13, 1.9.14, 1.9.15, 1.10.1, 1.10.2, 1.11.1, 1.11.3, 1.11.6, 1.11.7, 1.11.8, 1.11.10, 1.11.11, 1.11.12, 1.11.13, 1.12.2, 1.13.1, 1.13.2, 1.13.3, 1.14.1, 1.14.2, 1.15.3, 1.15.6, 1.15.9, 1.15.10, 1.15.11, 1.15.12, 1.16.0, 1.17.0, 1.17.1, 1.17.2, 1.16.1, 1.17.3, 1.17.4, 1.17.6, 1.17.7, 1.17.8, 1.17.9, 1.17.10, 1.18.0, 1.19.1, 1.19.2, 1.17.5, 1.19.0, 1.19.3, 1.19.4, 1.19.5, 1.19.6, 1.19.7, 1.19.8, 1.19.9, 1.19.10, 1.20.0, 1.20.1, 1.21.0, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.20.2, 1.22.0, 1.23.0, 1.23.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.23.2, 1.22.1, 1.23.3, 1.23.4, 1.24.0, 1.25.0, 1.25.1, 1.25.2, 1.25.3, 1.25.4, 1.25.5, 1.26.0, 1.26.1, 1.26.2, 1.27.1, 1.27.0, 1.27.2, 1.27.3, 1.26.3, 1.27.4, 1.27.5, 1.28.0, 1.29.0, 1.29.1, 1.29.2, 1.29.3, 1.29.4, 1.28.1, 1.29.5, 1.28.2, 1.29.6, 1.28.3, 1.29.7, 1.29.8, 1.30.0, 1.30.1, 1.31.0, 1.30.2, 1.31.1, 1.30.3, 1.31.2, 1.30.4, 1.31.3, 1.31.4, 1.31.5, 1.30.5, 1.31.6

Source code repository url hg.nginx.org, github.com, github.com

Stack exchange tag stackoverflow.com

User manual url nginx.org, nginx.org

External References (36)

Alpine linux package nginx

Alternativeto software id nginx

Arch linux package nginx, nginx-mainline, nginx-src

Aur package nginx-mainline-boringssl, nginx-libressl, nginx-hg, nginx-devel, nginx-custom-dev, nginx-custom, nginx-mainline-libressl, nginx-devel-mod-naxsi, nginx-rtmp, libx32-nginx, nginx-rtmp-src

Chocolatey community package id nginx

Common vulnerabilities and exposures id CVE-2016-4450, CVE-2016-1247, CVE-2016-0747, CVE-2016-0746, CVE-2016-0742, CVE-2014-3616, CVE-2014-3556, CVE-2011-4315, CVE-2010-2266, CVE-2010-2263, CVE-2009-3898, CVE-2009-3896, CVE-2009-2629, CVE-2009-4487, CVE-2022-41741, CVE-2022-41742, CVE-2024-32760, CVE-2024-31079, CVE-2024-35200, CVE-2026-27654

Debian stable package nginx

Debian wiki article Nginx

Docker hub repository library/nginx

Domain name nginx.org

Facebook username nginxinc

Fedora package nginx

Free software directory entry Nginx

Freebase id /m/02qft91

Freebsd port www/nginx, www/nginx-full, www/nginx-devel, www/nginx-lite

Gentoo package www-servers/nginx

Gentoo wiki article Nginx, Nginx/de, Nginx/tr, Nginx/es, Nginx/fr, Nginx/hu, Nginx/ru, Nginx/zh-cn, Nginx/ja, Nginx/ko

Github account nginx

Github topic nginx

Gitlab topic id nginx

Guix variable name nginx

Homebrew formula name nginx

Macports port nginx-devel

Man page nginx.1, nginx.8

Netbsd package id www/nginx, www/nginx-devel

Open hub id nginx

Openbsd port www/nginx

Opensuse package nginx

Pro-linux.de dbapp id 11517

Quora topic id nginx

Repology project name nginx

Sill software id 95

Slackbuilds package network/nginx

Ubuntu package nginx

X (twitter) username nginxorg

Zhihu topic id 19574050

🌐 Available in 23 languages

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🏷️ Also known as

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🔗 Connections

Protocol 5

HTTPS, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Internet Message Access Protocol, Post Office Protocol 3, HTTP/2

Instance of 3

free software, web server, proxy server

Operating system 2

Microsoft Windows, Unix-like operating system

← Depends on software 2

KickassTorrents, inventaire.io server

Belongs to 1

Apache APISIX

2-clause BSD License

Derivative work 1

YunoHost

Developer 1

Igor Sysoev

Founder 1

Igor Sysoev

← Based on 1

YunoHost

← Factgrid item id 1

Trebitz

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ nginx is an instance of web server (Q11288) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

[2] ↑ nginx ranks in the top 5% of web_server entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (27,827 views/month).. Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
[28] ↑ nginx has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.. Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ nginx is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.. Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

7d ago · Spiral6800 · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Software version identifier → 1.6.1, 1.4.7, 1.4.6 +188

Alpine linux package → nginx

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P9045]]: nginx, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/324932378|nginx (#324932378)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8507|Alpine Linux package]] #mix'"
17d ago · S8321414 · 2026-09-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Software version identifier → 1.6.1, 1.4.7, 1.4.6 +188

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P348]]: 1.30.5"
4w ago · Github-wiki-bot bot · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Software version identifier → 1.6.1, 1.4.7, 1.4.6 +188

"/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P348]], Update with GitHub data ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/CB/a5505ace2216|details]])"
6w ago · Github-wiki-bot bot · 2026-08-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Official blog url → https://blog.nginx.org/

Software version identifier → 1.6.1, 1.4.7, 1.4.6 +188

Faq url → https://nginx.org/en/docs/faq.html

P14659 → https://nginx.org/en/

+ 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P348]], Update with GitHub data ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/CB/a7d4d742ac3c|details]])"
8w ago · Spiral6800 · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Debian wiki article → Nginx

Small logo or icon → Nginx logo hexagon.svg

Domain name → nginx.org

Logo image → Nginx logo.svg, Nginx-logo.png, Nginx logo 2024.svg

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13337]]: nginx.org, Matched to #mix'n'match [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/192115049|nginx.org (#192115049)]] for {{P|13337}}"
11w ago · Github-wiki-bot bot · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Software version identifier → 1.6.1, 1.4.7, 1.4.6 +188

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P348]]: 1.30.4, Update with GitHub data ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/CB/71d21a96730|details]])"
14w ago · Lbocquet · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Logo image → Nginx logo.svg, Nginx-logo.png, Nginx logo 2024.svg

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P154]]: Nginx-logo.png"
15w ago · Github-wiki-bot bot · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Software version identifier → 1.6.1, 1.4.7, 1.4.6 +188

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P348]]: 1.30.3, Update with GitHub data ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/CB/d25e05a95221|details]])"
20w ago · Github-wiki-bot bot · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Software version identifier → 1.6.1, 1.4.7, 1.4.6 +188

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P348]]: 1.30.1, Update with GitHub data ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/CB/80674f16604d|details]])"
20w ago · ~2026-28307-50 · 2026-05-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Distribution format → digital download

Instance of → —

Operating system → —

Developer → —

+ 26 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P348]]: 1.4.5"

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