https://www.nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/
NGINX is an open source web server and reverse proxy that excels at large‑scale web integration, application security, and web acceleration. NGINX Plus extends NGINX with additional load balancing and application delivery features. The articles in the NGINX Plus Admin Guide and Tutorial will quickly show you how to use some of the most popular features of NGINX and NGINX Plus. To purchase an NGINX Plus subscription, contact the NGINX Plus sales team.
Basic Functionality
- Web server – Configuring virtual servers and locations, using variables, rewriting URIs, and customizing error pages
- Serving static content – Setting the root directory for requested content, and creating ordered lists of files to serve if the original index file or URI does not exist
- Reverse proxy – Proxying requests to HTTP, FastCGI, uwsgi, SCGI, and memcached servers; controlling proxied request headers; and buffering of responses from proxied servers
- Compression and decompression – Compressing responses on the fly to minimize use of network bandwidth
- Web content cache – Caching static and dynamic content from proxied servers