How Not to Write an NGINX Module: A WebP Case Study
by Danila Vershinin, April 5, 2026
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 NGINX module development. We dissect what went wrong and show how to do it right.
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by Danila Vershinin, January 19, 2026
Learn how to automatically serve WebP images with NGINX to supporting browsers while falling back to JPEG/PNG for others. Covers content negotiation, the Vary header, on-the-fly conversion with nginx-module-webp, and the PageSpeed module.
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