About#

Angie PRO 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 1.25.2, including HTTP/3 support, and a number of new features.

Current Version#

Angie PRO 1.3.2 was released on November 23, 2023. New versions appear quarterly; in between, we publish urgent fixes and important updates.

Also, see the entire changelog.

Core advantages over nginx include the following:

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/
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.
Cache sharding in the proxy module, which enables distributing it between locations depending on the properties of the response.
Pre-built binary packages for many popular third-party modules.