About#
Angie PRO /ˈendʒi/ is an efficient, powerful, and scalable web server that was forked from nginx:
Conceived by ex-devs from the original team to venture beyond the earlier vision and act as a drop-in replacement without major changes to module setup or configuration.
Includes all capabilities of nginx 1.25.4 and a number of new features.
We build binary packages for a range of systems and architectures. For licensing and contractual queries:
+7 965 312-44-76
A choice of ready-made Angie PRO packages, Docker images, and source code build options.
Startup and run-time control; configuration, modules, directives, and variables.
Resolving technical issues with Angie PRO, available feedback routes.
Information for developers who want to contribute to the project.
Current Version#
Angie PRO 1.5.0 was released on 27.03.2024. New versions appear quarterly; in between, we publish urgent fixes and important updates.
Also, see the entire changelog.
Features#
Core advantages over nginx include the following:
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.
Waiting queue for requests, configured using the queue directive in the
upstream
block.Simplified configuration: the
location
directive can define several matching expressions at once, which enables combining blocks that share configuration.Exposing basic information about the web server, its configuration files, as well as metrics of proxied servers, client connections, shared memory zones, and many other things via a RESTful API interface in JSON format.
Managing proxied servers through a RESTful dynamic configuration API.
Exporting statistics in Prometheus format with customizable templates.
Monitoring and controlling the server through the browser with the Console Light visual monitoring tool. See the online demo: https://console.angie.software/
Server signature on error pages and in the
Server
header field can be hidden or overridden with the server_tokens directive.Automatically updating lists of proxied servers matching a domain name or retrieve such lists from SRV DNS records.
Proactively checking the state of proxied servers by sending periodic probing requests.
Load balancing based on average response time from proxied servers with customizable smoothing factor.
Session binding mode, which directs all requests within one session to the same proxied server.
Conditional binding of client connections to the proxied server connection, which also enables proxying NTLM.
Additional binding mode sticky learn, enabling detection and storage of client sessions in shared memory.
Recommissioning upstream servers after a failure smoothly using the
slow_start
option of the server directive.Cache sharding in the proxy module, which enables distributing it between locations depending on the properties of the response.
Extending authorization and balancing capabilities for the MQTT protocol with the mqtt_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.