05/08/2026

Angie vs NGINX

Angie is a drop-in replacement for NGINX, maintained by the original NGINX core developers after leaving F5/NGINX Inc. This page compares the…

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05/08/2026

Angie and NGINX on Kubernetes: Helm, Ingress, WAF, HTTP/3 and TLS

This guide covers running Angie or NGINX from the myguard repository on Kubernetes — using the myguard Docker images, configuring production Helm…

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05/08/2026

Angie ACME / Let’s Encrypt

Angie native ACME: configure free TLS certificates from Let’s Encrypt or any RFC 8555 CA directly in nginx.conf. No Certbot, no cron. Covers basic setup, SAN certificates, staging, HTTP redirect, auto-renewal, and a migration guide from Certbot.

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05/08/2026

openssl-nginx: A Dedicated OpenSSL Build for NGINX and Angie

The OpenSSL that ships with your distro handles everything — mail clients, SSH daemons, package managers. That’s the problem. openssl-nginx is a lean, performance-tuned OpenSSL 3.5 built specifically for NGINX and Angie: kTLS offload, faster elliptic curves, hardware entropy, and zero legacy bloat.

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05/04/2026

How to Optimize Nginx and Angie for Maximum Performance and Security

A complete expert guide to nginx performance optimization and security hardening on Debian and Ubuntu. Covers HTTP/3, TLS 1.3, brotli, ModSecurity WAF, FastCGI cache, PHP-Snuffleupagus, and the best WordPress plugins — with every directive explained.

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05/04/2026

How to Use Nginx NJS (JavaScript Module): The Complete Edge Computing Guide

Learn how to use the Nginx NJS JavaScript module for JWT authentication, rate limiting, response transformation, and content-based routing at the network edge — with real working examples and full explanations of every directive.

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05/04/2026

Complete Guide to Using Nginx with Lua: Enhanced Web Server Functionality

How to use the nginx Lua module (ngx_http_lua) from the myguard repository: install, LuaJIT performance, cosocket I/O, Redis rate limiting, JWT auth, LRU caching, dynamic routing and body transformation. Includes lua-resty library overview and Lua vs NJS comparison.

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01/20/2024

Hardening PHP-FPM with PHP-Snuffleupagus – Install and Configure on Debian/Ubuntu

PHP-Snuffleupagus adds interpreter-level security to PHP-FPM: blocks dangerous functions (exec, system, eval), enforces cookie flags, validates uploads, prevents deserialization attacks and applies per-pool rules. Install guide for PHP 7.0–8.4 on Debian and Ubuntu.

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11/28/2023

nginx-minimal

nginx-minimal is a leaner myguard nginx build: same performance flags (HTTP/3, QUIC, -O3, jemalloc), same 50+ dynamic modules, but with 12 static modules removed that most PHP/proxy deployments never use. Ideal for WordPress, API proxies and principle-of-least-privilege setups.

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11/17/2023

The packages nginx-core, nginx-full, nginx-light, nginx-extras are deprecated

nginx-full (1.22.1-6) unstable; urgency=medium The packages nginx-core, nginx-full, nginx-light, nginx-extras are deprecated.Packages no longer distribute the nginx binary and are replacedby a…

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