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  1. Nginx

    The official NGINX Open Source repository.

    Project mention: $request_time Looks Fast, But Users Say It''s Slow: Breaking nginx Latency into 4 Parts | dev.to | 2026-07-28

    nginx source ngx_http_upstream.c: confirmation that all three variables share the same origin (u->start_time) and the nested structure

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  3. GoAccess

    GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

    Project mention: GoAccess – open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-13

  4. tengine

    A high-performance web server and reverse proxy, 100% compatible with nginx.

  5. nginx-module-vts

    Nginx virtual host traffic status module

    Project mention: nginx Tools for When Your Config Gets Out of Hand | dev.to | 2026-08-04

  6. angie

    Angie - drop-in replacement for nginx

    Project mention: Angie – Drop-In Replacement for Nginx | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-17

  7. nginx-vod-module

    NGINX-based MP4 Repackager

  8. ngx_http_proxy_connect_module

    A forward proxy module for CONNECT request handling

  9. njs

    A subset of JavaScript language to use in nginx

  10. ngx_mruby

    ngx_mruby - A Fast and Memory-Efficient Web Server Extension Mechanism Using Scripting Language mruby for nginx

  11. ngx-fancyindex

    Fancy indexes module for the Nginx web server

  12. groonga

    An embeddable fulltext search engine. Groonga is the successor project to Senna.

  13. ngx-php

    ngx-php - Embedded php7 or php8 scripting language for nginx module. Mainline development version of the ngx-php.

    Project mention: The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-30

    Pasir is like frankenphp, but in Rust. Very promising, but still early in development:

    https://github.com/el7cosmos/pasir

    Which uses the following Zend API bindings for Rust:

    https://github.com/davidcole1340/ext-php-rs

    There's also all sorts of interesting experiments, like ngx-php, which basically embeds PHP via Zend API inside an nginx binary: https://github.com/rryqszq4/ngx-php

    And workerman, which has a hybrid backend of asio libraries, so you can get pretty fast runtimes: https://github.com/walkor/workerman

  14. ngx-http-auth-jwt-module

    Secure your NGINX locations with JWT

  15. ngx_healthcheck_module

    nginx module for upstream servers health check. support stream and http upstream. 该模块可以为Nginx提供主动式后端服务器健康检查的功能（同时支持四层和七层后端服务器的健康检测）

  16. nginx-ssl-fingerprint

    High performance ja3 ja4 and http2 fingerprint for nginx.

  17. nginx-ssl-ja3

    nginx module for SSL/TLS ja3 fingerprint.

    Project mention: Show HN: An open source access logs analytics script to block Bot attacks | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-14

  18. wasm-nginx-module

    Run Wasm in OpenResty/Nginx

  19. ngx-export

    A comprehensive web framework aimed at building custom Haskell handlers for the Nginx Web Server

  20. ngx_wasm_module

    Nginx + WebAssembly

  21. lua-resty-ffi

    lua-resty-ffi provides an efficient and generic API to do hybrid programming in openresty/envoy with mainstream languages (Go, Python, Java, Rust, Nodejs, etc.).

  22. nginx-jwt-module

    NGINX module to check for a valid JWT.

  23. docker-nginx-image-proxy

    on the fly image cropping with gravity, resize and compression microservice

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Nginx projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Nginx 31,424
2 GoAccess 20,823
3 tengine 13,333
4 nginx-module-vts 3,499
5 angie 2,544
6 nginx-vod-module 2,116
7 ngx_http_proxy_connect_module 1,976
8 njs 1,591
9 ngx_mruby 997
10 ngx-fancyindex 937
11 groonga 855
12 ngx-php 700
13 ngx-http-auth-jwt-module 387
14 ngx_healthcheck_module 288
15 nginx-ssl-fingerprint 241
16 nginx-link-function 234
17 nginx-ssl-ja3 227
18 wasm-nginx-module 202
19 ngx-export 163
20 ngx_wasm_module 140
21 lua-resty-ffi 128
22 nginx-jwt-module 111
23 docker-nginx-image-proxy 111

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