Angie /ˈendʒi/ is an efficient, powerful, and scalable web server that was forked from nginx to act as a drop-in replacement, so you can use existing setups without major changes to module layout or configuration.
The project was conceived by ex-devs from the original nginx team to venture beyond the earlier vision.
To start using Angie, see the official documentation:
- Installation: https://angie.software/en/installation/
- Runtime configuration: https://angie.software/en/configuration/
- Development and contribution: https://angie.software/en/development/
- Troubleshooting and feedback channels: https://angie.software/en/troubleshooting/
On top of all the capabilities of nginx 1.27.0, Angie adds a number of its own advantages, including these:
- 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.
- Informing balancing decisions with RDP protocol's session cookies via the rdp_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.