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brew install nginx v1.31.2 BSD-2-Clause

Lightweight HTTP(S) and reverse proxy server with IMAP/POP3 proxy support, written in C.

Why you might care

nginx is fast, memory-efficient, and handles high concurrency with an event-driven architecture—ideal for production web services, load balancing, and reverse proxying. It's simpler to configure than Apache for many common tasks and works well as a local development server or routing layer. A single binary with minimal dependencies.

Categories

web-server proxy

Alternatives

Apache HTTP Server Caddy HAProxy Traefik
11.5k
30-day installs · #331
35.6k
90-day · #344
133.4k
365-day · #355

Runtime dependencies

openssl@3 pcre2

Links

Caveats

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/.

Blurb generated by claude-haiku-4-5 on 2mo ago.

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