Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install nginx

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%

sudo port install nginx

MacPorts ports tree · www/nginx/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%

sudo apk add nginx

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · nginx · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install nginx

Debian stable package indexes · nginx · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install nginx

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · nginx · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#nginx

nixpkgs package indexes · nginx · Quelle: raw.githubusercontent.com

Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%

sudo pacman -S nginx

Arch Linux sync databases · nginx · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%

sudo zypper install nginx

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · nginx · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Chocolateyverifiziert · 92%

choco install nginx

Chocolatey community package catalog · nginx · Quelle: community.chocolatey.org

Scoopverifiziert · 92%

scoop install main/nginx

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/nginx.json · Quelle: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverifiziert · 92%

winget install --id freenginx.nginx -e

Windows Package Manager source index · freenginx.nginx · Quelle: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

HTTP(S) server and reverse proxy, and IMAP/POP3 proxy server

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

nginx

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

nginx is an HTTP server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy, and mail proxy. It became famous for event-driven, low-resource handling of large numbers of concurrent connections and then became a default building block in web serving, reverse proxying, Kubernetes ingress, and container deployments.

Projektgeschichte

Igor Sysoev began developing nginx in spring 2002 to solve high-concurrency web traffic problems, especially the C10k-style problem of handling many simultaneous connections efficiently. The project was open sourced under a permissive license on October 4, 2004.

For years nginx grew with little marketing and limited documentation because it solved real operational pain. The official nginx retrospective says Sysoev was the sole developer for seven years and expanded it from a web server and reverse proxy into a broader web application delivery tool with load balancing, caching, security, and content acceleration features.

Adoptionsgeschichte

nginx adoption accelerated as high-traffic sites, startups, and infrastructure teams needed something lighter than Apache prefork-era deployments for static content, reverse proxying, and traffic fan-out. The official nginx site describes it as the world's most popular web server, one of the most popular Docker images, and the software powering multiple Kubernetes ingress controllers.

The commercial story followed the open-source adoption curve. NGINX, Inc. formed in 2011, NGINX Plus launched in 2013, F5 completed its acquisition of NGINX on May 9, 2019, and Igor Sysoev stepped back from NGINX and F5 on January 18, 2022.

Wie es verwendet wird

Operators use nginx as the front door for services: serve static files, terminate TLS, route to upstream application servers, cache responses, rate-limit abusive clients, proxy WebSockets, and expose TCP/UDP streams. On developer machines it is often installed to reproduce production routing or test local reverse-proxy behavior.

Package nerds care about nginx build flags and module layout. A distro or Homebrew nginx package is more than one binary: it encodes TLS library choices, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 support, dynamic modules, config paths, default document roots, service integration, and whether the package follows the F5/nginx.org line or a distribution-maintained variant.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

nginx is a canonical infrastructure package: boring once configured, but decisive in production behavior. Its package history is really a story about turning a specialized high-concurrency web server into a universal reverse-proxy and application-delivery primitive.

Zeitleiste

2002: Igor Sysoev began developing nginx.
2004-10-04: nginx was released as open source.
2011: NGINX, Inc. was formed.
2013: NGINX Plus launched as the commercial product line.
2019-05-09: F5 completed its acquisition of NGINX.
2022-01-18: Igor Sysoev stepped back from NGINX and F5.

Related projects

Apache httpd
OpenResty
Tengine
Cloudflare infrastructure
Kubernetes Ingress Controllers
NGINX Unit
njs

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: orange

formula declares a Homebrew service.

Risikoklassifikator

orange Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · infrastructure

Warum

formula declares a Homebrew service

Signale

metadata:service

Installationsverhalten

Homebrew deklariert einen Post-install-Hook für diese Formel.
Formelmetadaten deklarieren einen Service- oder Daemon-Block.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Installiert mit 2 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf/etc/nginx/nginx.conf/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`nginx`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-25

Manager-Version1.31.3

Manager aktualisiert2026-07-16

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://nginx.org/

InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://nginx.org/none Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:nginx
Version	1.31.3
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/nginx
Homepage	https://nginx.org/
Repository	https://github.com/nginx/nginx
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://nginx.org/en/docs
Lizenz	BSD-2-Clause
Quellarchiv	https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.31.3.tar.gz
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-07-16T03:37:38Z
Pulse	updated
Abhängigkeiten	openssl@3, pcre2
Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken	libxcrypt
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	definiert
Dienst	declared
Einschränkungen	Docroot is: $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/www The default port has been set in $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/nginx/nginx.conf to 8080 so that nginx can run without sudo. nginx will load all files in $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/nginx/servers/.

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	nginx
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

libnginx-mod-http-geoip 1.26.3-3+deb13u4

GeoIP HTTP module for Nginx

nginx mit Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop, winget installieren