Practical guides to performance, security and life beyond end of support.
Cut wasted revalidation requests on versioned static assets. The NGINX immutable module emits RFC-compliant far-future Cache-Control headers with the immutable attribute, stale-while-revalidate, and stale-if-error…
Getting NGINX HTTP/3 on Ubuntu to actually work is harder than the nginx docs make it look. You enable http3 on; in your NGINX…
Serve cross-origin JSONP from NGINX without the callback injection risk. The XSS module validates callback names against a strict JavaScript-identifier grammar, so hostile query…
Learn how to use the NGINX XSLT module to transform XML responses into HTML, RSS feeds into styled web pages, and XML API output…
Learn how to automatically convert and serve WebP and AVIF images in NGINX using the ngx_immerse filter module. This module transparently intercepts image responses…
A deep technical analysis of ngx_webp - an NGINX module that converts images to WebP on-the-fly. It works, but violates nearly every principle of…
Learn how to extend NGINX with WebAssembly using the ngx_wasm_module. Write custom filters in Rust, Go, or C++ using the Proxy-Wasm standard, and run…
Install and configure the ngx_waf module to protect NGINX against SQL injection, XSS, malicious bots, and CC attacks. Includes IP blacklists, regex rules, rate…
The NGINX var module adds 70+ built-in functions for dynamic variable assignment — string manipulation, math, cryptographic hashing, regex, encoding, time operations, and IP…
Learn how to dynamically manage NGINX upstream servers using Consul and etcd with the upsync module. Add, remove, and reconfigure backend servers without reloading…
