Top 6 nginx-module Open-Source Projects

nginx-module-vts

4 3,122 3.6 C

Nginx virtual host traffic status module
ngx-php

4 572 8.8 C

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

Project mention: Nginx Unit – Universal web app server | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-10

Two questions:
1. Does Unit + PHP doing the typical “initialize & teardown” that PHP is know for?
Or is Unit persisting the initialization/setup, hence why it’s achieving the way faster results?
2. How is Unit/PHP architecturally different than NGX-PHP (an event loop)?
https://github.com/rryqszq4/ngx-php

InfluxDB

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nginx-opentracing

1 494 9.0 C++

NGINX plugin for OpenTracing
ngx_healthcheck_module

3 259 0.0 C

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）
SSOwat

1 231 5.7 Lua

A simple SSO for NGINX, written in Lua

Project mention: 🆕 Cosmos 0.9.0 - All in one selfhosted secure App Store, Reverse-proxy, container manager and authentication provider -- No more restart needed + new rewritten Let's Encrypt integration | /r/selfhosted | 2023-07-12

Cloudron has openid - https://docs.cloudron.io/user-management/#openid-connect . Yunohost does not have openid but has SSO via nginx - https://github.com/YunoHost/SSOwat .

nginx-jwt-module

1 85 5.0 C

NGINX module to check for a valid JWT.

Project mention: Is it possible to password protected reverse proxy? | /r/selfhosted | 2023-05-21

Quick and easy docker solution: https://github.com/max-lt/nginx-jwt-module Another promising module: https://github.com/TeslaGov/ngx-http-auth-jwt-module

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).