NGINX
NGINX is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Web Servers & Reverse Proxies category, licensed BSD-2-Clause and written mainly in C. It ships a Docker image. It has 31,973 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 23, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 31,973
- Forks
- 8,295
- Open issues
- 165
- Commits, last 12 months
- 319
- Last commit
- Oct 23, 2026
- Latest release
- release-1.31.8Oct 21, 2026
- Created
- Jun 23, 2015
- License
- BSD-2-ClauseOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 23, 2026, 319 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors12 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 23, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 319 |
| Latest release | release-1.31.8 (Oct 21, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 34 |
| Open issues | 165 |
| Open pull requests | 287 |
| Good first issues | 11 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jun 23, 2015 |
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About NGINX
HTTP and reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, and generic TCP/UDP proxy server.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/nginx/nginx.
Topics
- content-cache
- load-balancer
- reverse-proxy
- web-server
- http
- https
- quic
- tls
- tcp-proxy-server
- mail-proxy-server
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Is NGINX free and open source?
Yes. NGINX is open-source software released under the BSD-2-Clause license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run NGINX with Docker?
Yes. NGINX provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to NGINX?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to NGINX include Caddy, Traefik and Nginx Proxy Manager.
Is NGINX actively maintained?
The most recent commit to NGINX was on Oct 23, 2026 with 319 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is release-1.31.8, published Oct 21, 2026. It had 165 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.